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[quote=Anonymous]I'd be interested to see info on how many people have close friends from college based on years post graduation. It's very different to ask people at age 30 if they are still in touch with college friends, than to ask people at age 50.

I'm mid-40s and I've also realized at this point that people can come in and out of your life, and you don't necessarily need to "stay in touch" to maintain a connection to people. Example: there was a friend I went to HS and college with, but totally lost touch with. Then years later she and her husband moved to the city where I live, and she got in touch via another friend from HS who was in touch with me. We reconnected and hung out for a time, and then they moved away again and now we aren't really in touch again. But if we were ever in the city where she lives, I'd reach out.

The older you are, the more relationships like this you have. You don't have to emerge from any phase of your life with some kind of intact friend group in order to have meaningful connections to people. You don't even have to stay in touch regularly (or track each other via social media). You can just treat people well when they are in your life, try to connect and make memories and impressions, and then move on to the next phase. Some people come back, some don't.[/quote]

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