Carissa Duenas is the CEO and founder of Presence Labs, a Toronto-based strategy advisory firm studying how and why relationships weaken under modern conditions. She writes about drift, distance, and the slow interior shifts that precede visible disconnection.

Her work has appeared in the New York Times and the Globe and Mail.

Close Range is where her personal and cultural observations go.

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