Dear Thelma: Sad and lonely without friends to help me


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Over the years, from my days as a teenager to adulthood, this question always comes to mind: Was there ever an issue for this to happen or was I the one to blame? Countless times, I've wallowed in self-pity and doubt.

Somehow, despite having had meaningful conversations with them, they grow distant or have nothing to do with me at all after that. Some of them are my closest friends.

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