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I'm not sure if I'm allowed to talk about how lucky I am to have such a close, loving group of friends in my immediate geographical area. I have a lot of close, loving friends who happen to live far away and I don't want them to feel sad or left out when I talk about how happy I am to have the ones who are here.

I can't help but think about how good it is now because this is going to be a big year of changes for everyone. It's already started, what with Cheryl moving down from Rhode Island, she and Gina and I getting ready to move in together, and erin, Kitana and Kirsten all leaving around the same time this summer (to go to Portland, India and Japan, for six-plus months, two months and a year, respectively.) Not to mention Steph M and Mike heading out to Park Slope, and Steph P and Cathy already rooming together in Williamsburg. And, heck, Jen (Pardilla) is coming to New York in the fall! We'll be clustered and scattered in odd configurations come summertime. All sorts of new arrangements to get used to. And big things happening anyway; people graduating, and starting their careers, and losing weight, and getting rock-singer haircuts, and newsgroups dying, and Projects coalescing, and cats and parents being left.

Addendum: I don't normally like to edit posts this long after posting them, but I feel that my little mental catalogue of comings-and-goings over the past year wouldn't be complete without correctiong the egregious omission of the fabulous Serra, of whom I've not seen nearly enough because I am so loathe to leave the house on weekends anymore. This does not detract from her excellent, New York-living-in-ness.

It's nuts, all the stuff that's going on, if you sit back and think about it.

I like to get mushy when I do and remember that song that Ade (one of my far-aways) played for me, the one I think of as "our song", "This Will Be Our Year" by The Zombies. That's a great song and it makes me cry. I miss my far-aways.

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