When you’re at school, you can just spend hundreds of hours really getting to know someone, and you just never really get time for that as an adult

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When you’re at school, you can just spend hundreds of hours really getting to know someone, and you just never really get time for that as an adult. And so if you lose an old friend, then you’ve just lost this huge investment.

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