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" Over winter break I hung out with my best friends from high school and I realized that distance can&amp;#039;t break apart strong friendships. I didn&amp;#039;t keep in touch with many people from high school but those that I did, I feel a stronger bond to than before. Ilia, DJ and I have been best friends all through middle school and high school and they were some of my only friends who stuck with me through the drama that is high school. We hung out nearly every day of winter break and never ran out of things to talk about and do.  With some people that I ran in to over break, the required questions were asked - where you go to school, if you like it, when you&amp;#039;re going back and of course asking what you&amp;#039;re up to tonight. You reminisce about some of the good times you had, but then it&amp;#039;s over and you forget about each other again. With Ilia, DJ and with a few other friends, I could tell that the friendship was real. I also realized that the people I go to school with now that I have become friends with are already closer to me then people I thought I were best friends after four years in high school. Winter break made me truly realize how much I love my new friends, and made me thankful for the true friends who stuck by me from the past. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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