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Moved cities and never made a single friend

Took the relocation, took the bigger paycheck, told myself the social part would sort itself out. Two years in, I had colleagues, no friends, and a calendar with nothing on weekends. I had forgotten how to make friends as an adult. Or maybe I had never known, and the old ones had just always been there.
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