I don’t know that we would have the same friendship, but I think that we would have met regardless. If that friend had not set us up, we would have eventually met somehow in the scene that we were in, in D.C. But there’s another story behind how you meet. When you tell the story of how you met, you tell this very superficial one line: “We met at this place, at this time.” That’s the meet-cute. So we were set up.īeck: My meta follow-up question to that is: How many times have you told that story now?Īminatou: My God, we’ve told that story too many times to count. Our mutual friend Dayo conspired to be the host that night in part so she could have both of us in attendance. Julie Beck: Let’s start at the beginning: How did you meet?Īminatou Sow: We met in Washington, D.C., in 2009, at a Gossip Girl viewing party.Īnn Friedman: But we also met because a friend very intentionally wanted us to meet each other. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Aminatou Sow, 35, a co-author of Big Friendship, and co-host of the podcast Call Your Girlfriend, who lives in Brooklyn, New York. Ann Friedman, 38, a co-author of Big Friendship, and co-host of the podcast Call Your Girlfriend, who lives in Los Angeles, California.
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