The Unexpected Joy of Finding Your Best Friends in Your 40s
Each installment of “The Friendship Files” features a conversation between The Atlantic’s Julie Beck and two or more friends, exploring the history and significance of their relationship.
This week she talks with a group of middle-aged men who met at the New York Mets fantasy baseball camp, where they trained with former major leaguers and lived like professional players for a week. They bonded over their love of the sport and the antics of camp life, but that connection quickly morphed into a deep, year-round friendship that they say has made them as close as brothers. They discuss the joy of living out their childhood dream and the magic of finding your best friends in your 40s.
The Friends:
, 45, the chief compliance and privacy officer at a health-care technology company who lives in Davie, Florida , 53, a lawyer who lives in Watertown, Connecticut , 43, a physical therapist who lives in Wallingford, Pennsylvania , 50, a teacher who lives in Taunton, U.K. , 46, a physician who lives in Homer, New York , 46, the chief medical officer at a
