BY ANNIE LANE

Dear Annie: After 30 years of friendship, raising kids together, losing our parents and a very good mutual friend, traveling together with our families and so much more, my friend told me after the election last year that she had trouble being around “people like me.” In other words, I voted wrongly. I told her that I loved her and that our friendship means more to me than political differences and her response was, “It’s not that simple for me.”

I hadn’t reached out to her until a few months ago when I knew her first grandbaby was born (I found out through social media). I sent a nice text and her response was “Who is this?” I can accept that friends aren’t always who you think they are, but I keep thinking of her and hate the idea that she is so angry at the world and our

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