I can relate to losing friends, but I've lost more friends because of moving away, them or me. And I'm terrible at staying in touch, so we're they. Now, I have 2 close friends, and some aquaintences. When I was a letter writer in my 20's a friend basically dropped me because of my long handwritten miserable letters. At the time, I didn't recognize the misery, but it came out in my letters. I don't blame her though.

I guess things change, because when I was a kid, my siblings were the most necessary people to me, now I rarely interact with any of them, rarely see them, only have my childhood memories of us as a group.