![]() That was also two weeks in, because traditionally that is when you break up with your high-school boyfriend. And then proceeded to drink a lot of cheap vodka. Miranda: To give another, slightly less flattering picture of me in those first few weeks of college, I think our friendship was further cemented when I-extremely dramatically, while wearing a strapless, backless velvet dress-broke up with my high-school boyfriend over the phone. Zan: For the record, I can now do all those things. Miranda: When I met Zan, she had never lit her own cigarette or opened a beer or wine bottle for herself because there’d always been a boy around who was trying to make out with her who was doing those things. Like, “Oh Zan, you’re going to need some help.” ![]() Zan: Long enough for her to cement herself in our friendship. Miranda Popkey (left) and Zan Romanoff (right) in November 2011. Zan Romanoff: It was a complicated thing. She just couldn’t get any hot water in the teacup. There were two hot-water dispensers, and Zan was fruitlessly trying to use the wrong one. I creepily also got up and wandered over. I’d already identified Zan as someone cooler than me who I definitely wanted to know. We were sitting in our dining hall, and Zan got up to make herself some tea. ![]() It was so early in orientation that our parents were still there. Miranda Popkey: We were on the same floor of the same dorm in college. This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity. She is the author of A Song to Take the World Apart, Grace and the Fever, and the forthcoming Look. Zan Romanoff, 32, a writer who lives in Los Angeles. She is the author of the forthcoming novel Topics of Conversation. ![]() Miranda Popkey, 32, a writer and social worker who lives in Watertown, Massachusetts. ![]()
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