There are two major categories of friends in this world. ... Despite the lack of true friends, fair weather friends are abundant in the world. ... Fair weather friends are the replaceable friends in your life. ... I found a new little girl that seemed similar to myself, and within the first couple weeks of school we became best friends. ... The fair weather friends far outweigh the number of true friends, but I still consider myself very fortunate. ...

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The only thing that she was looking forward to this year was hanging out with all of her friends. ... Last year he had constantly been made fun of by both his few friends and total strangers. ... However, back at school John had gotten to be a little suspicious. he had not heard or seen Cathy and her friends in a while. ... They all told him how he was a little rat and that is why he had no friends. ...

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My parents quit their perfect jobs and me and my sister left all our friends behind us. It was a really rough situation, moving to a different country, leaving from your family and friends. ... My body was so tired and wanted to sleep, but it was a little bit impossible because we had to go to the U.S. ... I told all of my friends and to my family that I am moving to the U.S. That was pretty cool, but leaving the family from your friends and leaving from your perfect life in Istanbul. ...

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Friend Jen has been my best friend since we were kids. We have gone through everything together from braces to high school to marriage and children. She was always there for me whenever I needed a shoulder to cry on or and ear to listen. Jen was the type of person who was never qu...

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In elementary school, everyone was friends unconditionally. ... Many of my friends were not so lucky. ... Little did I know that you needed a college degree to fly, but I didn't find that out until later. ... And little by little, it began to soak into my head and I began to try to live up to that potential. In as little as one year I went from 2.0 General Ed to 4.0 Honors (averaged out to 2.99 cum). ...

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I couldn't imagine leaving the security of my own room, my own stuff where I want it, my friends that I've spent practically my whole life with, my family who put up with all my little quirks, and my car!! ... Some of my friends that had already been to college and had come back to visit seemed so much older and more mature. ... I told her that I was a little scared and the thought of being on my own made me a little uneasy. "Sweetie" she said, "I know it's a little hard right now and things are a little confusing and overwhelming but it will get easier. ... I was worried that...

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I couldn't imagine leaving the security of my own room, my own stuff where I want it, my friends that I've spent practically my whole life with, my family who put up with all my little quirks, and my car!! ... Some of my friends that had already been to college and had come back to visit seemed so much older and more mature. ... I told her that I was a little scared and the thought of being on my own made me a little uneasy. "Sweetie" she said, "I know it's a little hard right now and things are a little confusing and overwhelming but it will get easier. ... I was worried that...

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I remember when I was little I used to sit on her lap as we played games or read a book. ... My new friends were in to partying and drugs. ... This is when Ifound out my friends weren't really my friends. ... With little time Iwas kicked out. ... I met one girl who Iinstantly became friends with. ...

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During my time there, I was an outgoing little girl; I always wanted to try new things and take advantage of the opportunities I had. ... I was even a little troublemaker, but I was also a leader, whenever I was with my friends, I was at the center, and people knew me. ... I still managed to make friends; we were all foreigners in my ESL class. ... I made some really good friends throughout those years in school. ... Unlike me and my other friends, who stayed home every weekend, she went out and lived. ...

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You will receive more than one night to complete papers and projects and you should work on them a little at a time. ... Nobody likes to not have any friends and you should try to make as many as possible. In order to make friends you don't need to fit a certain mold and you shouldn't change the way you act just to make friends, always be true to yourself. ... If you are nice to your teachers then they might do little favors for you, for example, if you made a 93.2 average in a class they might change it to a 93.5 to give you an "A" instead of a "B". ...

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Little did I know that even after graduating my chances of becoming wealthy and successful were limited. ... The friends that I hung out with throughout high school didn't even graduate. ... I dropped all of my friends and rarely do I have free time to have "fun". ...

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Working and playing soccer take up most of my time these days allowing me to have little to no social life at all. ... Besides school my friends play a very important role in my life. Today if I am lucky I will see my friends twice a week and when I do hang out with my friends it is usually between the hours of 7 and 8 o"clock. ... If this law is passed I will then have time to hang out with my friends and enjoy my free time a little more then I would if I had another after-school activity. ...

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She lives with both her mom and dad, and little sister Sydney. ... Little did Lara know that Christian DeWitt was her former best friend, Bree Connors and her mother. ... Lara obsessed over it and started picking out dresses so Bree started getting a little harsh. ... Bree's little brother, Liam was friends, well a little more than friends with Sydney and they had to keep it a secret because of what was happening. ... This caused problems for Sydney and Liam because little could they even be friends when they liked each other as well, so everything between had to be kept a secret. ...

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So, I told him how Dave invited us on a camping trip with him and his friends. ... It took us a little over an hour to reach our campsite. ... Then a couple of Dave's friends, Jon and Paul got a fire going. ... Dylan and I went boating, Dave went fishing with a few people, plus Jon and Paul decided to do a little hunting with their BB guns they brought with. ... They looked a lot older but they happened to be friends of Dave. ...

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If it was not for teachers, friends, and my own problems I would never had learned these lessons. ... I guess you can say that I was a little conceited and stuck-up. ... I started to hang around some of my brother's old friends and I soon became an outsider. ... By the end of the year that one girl realized that I was not arrogant and we became good friends. ... This trend continued and slowly I started to lose many of my close friends. ...

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Have you ever heard the saying, "You are who you"re friends are. ... She's right; you are who your friends are. ... By the time I was a freshman I was not a real bad kid, just a little punk. ... Other wise they wouldn't have been my friends. The bottom line is, is that it's true; you are who your friends are. ...

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Sitting there while everyone spoke, I couldn't help but get a little emotional. ... I graduated with one of my best friends and did it for my other best friend who was in heaven. ... My great grand parents, grand parents, great aunties and uncles, little and big cousins, friends and more all came out to help me celebrate. ... My little sister and little cousins look up to me and tell me all the time that they want to be just like me when they get older. I started tearing up a little when they came and gave me the biggest hug after my graduation and told me how proud of me they were. ...

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Moving up from intermediate school to middle school was a big jump. Our class went from being the oldest in school back down to the youngest. The middle school years were a big growing period for me. I could realize from the first day in 7th grade that things were going to be very different from ...

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It is deep purple with green little flowers sprinkled all over it. ... The very first page in my photo album has white paper covered with little pink piggys, blue baby bottles, yellow baby rattles, pacifiers, yellow teddy bears, purple bunnies, safety pins, and pink hearts. ... One of my favorite pages follows soon after; the friends' page. ... "Friends" is painted in light green at the top. ... Another is of my friends Melissa, my cousin Brad, and me on a family vacation in New York. ...

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I used to go to a catholic school and can remember when my friends and I used to pretend that we were priests. ... It's funny looking back now at how simple games like "pretend" amused little kids. ... I just wanted to talk to my friends. ... I use the Internet for research on papers, for contacting my professors, and for keeping in touch with old friends. ... After watching Law and Order, I decided to take some law courses to learn a little bit more about lawyers. ...

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In our elementary school days, my friends and I would spend our summers at the beach, taking turns burying each other in the sand up to our chins. ... Instead, my friends and I laid on huge, oversized beach towels, smelling of suntan oils, and baking in the sun. ... Now that I"m in college, and working I have little time to visit the beach during the day. ... I can recall quite vividly the horrible, gritty crunch of the mouthful of sand I took when I was little. ...

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This process might take a little longer for some, but the experience of getting older can be difficult. ... Generally these other people are our peers, friends, classmates and everyone else who we seek acceptance from. ... As a decent looking kid who loved sports and was a little shy, I was stereotyped as a dumb jock that could only play sports and was too conceited to speak to anyone. ... She then became the girlfriend of one of my best friends and that, as they say, was that. ... Friends that I had made in class would wave to me or say hi, and it would take a moment or two to register w...

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Many people find themselves leaving old friends to join new groups. ... Dealing with these changes, and finding ways to remain strong friends with one another is not an easy thing by any means. ... The two finally grow apart and eventually have little, if anything, to do with one another. ... Even cutting back on the time one spends with friends might help to ensure that they are not left behind at the end of the school year. ... By remaining confident, and remembering that everything one goes through will eventually pay off, life might get a little bit easier. ...

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That was one reason why I didn't have any Chinese friends at that time. ... I made huge amounts of friends. ... Some of us were a little slow, and had to stay longer in college while only two managed to get through to a university in the US. ... Anyway, throughout my college life, I have learnt to be a little more optimistic about everything. ... I heard some of my Chinese friends say that I could get killed if I couldn't speak Mandarin in China. ...

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Many people find themselves leaving old friends to join new groups. ... Dealing with these changes, and finding ways to remain strong friends with one another is not an easy thing by any means. ... The two finally grow apart and eventually have little, if anything, to do with one another. ... Even cutting back on the time one spends with friends might help to ensure that they are not left behind at the end of the school year. ... By remaining confident, and remembering that everything one goes through will eventually pay off, life might get a little bit easier. ...

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