Edwige is 17, the age at which friendship is everything. Confined with her “ nice but heavy ” family, the teenager experienced a drama so little understood by her parents that they sometimes dared to ask her to drop her cell phone. " It's horrible, me, my friends, I need to see them too much ... " laments the young girl who calls them "all the time" and sends them texts, even at night, since " the notion of time has disappeared ”.
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Their conversations based on " Are you okay?" I'm fine and you? I'm bored. What about you? Are not Shakespeare but the link is maintained. She needs it, Edwige, to get out of this new daily life where “ apart from working, there is nothing to do. Like her, most of the confined are slammed with their family or in a couple and, for them, friends represent a " elsewhere " particularly precious in these times, as psychoanalysis Danièle Brun notes.
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