Galentine’s Day is a reminder of how God brought together the editor and deputy editor of Woman Alive magazine!

In 2020 Jemimah Wright wrote an article about friends she had never met, one of them happened to be Tola Doll Fisher, Woman Alive’s editor. In celebration of Galentine’s Day, the global holiday that celebrates women’s friendship, we are re-publishing this article, and thankful to say, five years on, Doll and Jemimah have met face to face, and remain very good friends - and now colleagues!

One Sunday in 2020 I was flicking through The Telegraph’s Stella magazine as I ate my breakfast. I laughed out loud when I read an article by Bryony Gordon entitled ‘I can’t be the only one who has close friends I’ve never met’. She called it the unexpected twist of lockdown, and asserted that meeting people in real life is not the only way to forge special bonds. I immediately took a photo of the article, and sent it to Tola-Doll Fisher, the editor of this magazine. She is one of my closest friends now – we message on WhatsApp nearly every day, even though we have not actually hung out together in real life.