When you’ve moved schools as many times as I have, you start to think of everyone as temporary. Friends come and go. You might have a best friend, but you know in the back of your mind, she’s not always going to be there. You’ll change schools or she’ll change schools, and that’ll be that. For years, I told myself that was okay. That was just the way it was, kind of like replacing a toothbrush. Sure, you might like your toothbrush a lot. But sooner or later, you’d have to replace it. You’d get a new toothbrush, and it might feel strange and uncomfortable at first, but then you’d get used to
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