The Tender Warrior

Where We Still Belong

There is a familiarity that doesn’t disappear.

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Vicki Tull
Apr 22, 2026
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A Charleston weekend and the quiet power of enduring community

We hadn’t seen each other in 25 years.

And yet—there we were.

Six of us, in Charleston, for a girls’ weekend. Women I had known at different depths, in a different season of life. Some closely. Some more peripherally. All of us connected by a shared past that had gone quiet for decades.

They all…

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