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Friends...how many of us have them

The meaning of friend is a person with whom one is allied in a struggle or cause; one who supports, sympathizes with, and is trustworthy.  Over the past few weeks I have really been thinking about my friendships and the types of friends that I have now and the type of friend that I am to others. After mom passed I am literally the only person living in the Washington D.C. area.  I have no family other than my husband and children.  So over the years I've created a small network of friends who I now call my family.  But this extremely exclusive network has come with a cost.  When I think back to my college years there were so many friendships that I didn't nurture.  Instead I got lazy and I didn't put the time and effort into them.  And now I hardly talk to many people who once had been very close and dear to me.  In the past I would use the excuse that I had Maya as a way to make myself feel better but I think that I just got lazy.  ...