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I seem to have different groups of friends. There are my college friends who I see a lot these days. There are my high-school friends who I never see anymore. There are my Germany friends who I also rarely see anymore, but we actually make efforts to get together occasionally. There are my SIL friends that I just made and may or may not see again. There's still one more important group of friends that I have. At first thought, I might just be tempted to throw them into a “miscellaneous” category, but I wouldn't do that. Besides, they all have something in common: they're like family.

Okay, some of these people are family… literally. They're blood related. Other people are just so interconnected with my family that they might as well be family even if they aren't related by blood. This past week, it's been great to just have the opportunity to hang out with some of these people even if it is only briefly. Whether it's going to watch a film, taking a walk by a lake or… going out for “coffee”, there's something to be said for the group of friends who have either literally been your friend since the day that you were born or been your friend since the day that they were born. In these days of shifting back and forth between various places around the globe and meeting various people, I find it ironic that the group of friends that I want to hang out the most with are the friends that were my friends back when I was still in kindergarten.