Funny that you mention friends, b/c I have friends in Italy that I’ve kept in touch with. Now more than ever w/the internet, the ease to keep in contact has improved. I think I’m so lucky to have them in my lives and how I may not have ever know them and all the perspectives and insight had I not been there. My DH grew up his whole life in Hawaii and left to go to college to do something w/his life, while all his friends remained there and surfed and did nothing. He has so little in common w/them now. Even though he can keep in touch online, he just can’t relate.
