For the next four years, the topic of friends—where to find them, how to make them, how to keep the ones that had scattered around the country—would obsess me.
I joined a boxing gym, took up painting and pottery courses, met up for coffee and Thai food with people I chatted with on Bumble BFF.
I remember the moment it settled in: sitting in the parking lot after a late-night Target run, watching a gaggle of young women pile into their car together while they laughed.
I'd never experienced what it meant to be alone someplace without a dorm full of other people who were as eager as I was to fill the silence and form connections.
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