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When returning home doesn't restore old friendships

I moved back to my hometown after divorce thinking it would be easier to reconnect but everyone has their lives and families now and I feel like a stranger in the place I grew up.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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We cannot step into the same river twice, and the people we once knew have become different people in our absence.

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