Sunday Sayings

I know todays saying maybe doesn't fit my little talk, but we're just going to roll with it. (Okay?)
Now that it's April I am officially at the two-and-a-half month mark of my stay in England! And this week I noticed a change: I stopped feeling like I was meeting people and started feeling like I was making friends. I'm sure anyone who has ever moved has had that moment. But maybe not. I've never moved before, so I wouldn't know. I don't expect to come out of this trip with new best friends or anything, but I'm hoping that I can strengthen the relationships I have made so that maybe I won't just lose all contact with the community that I've become part of here.
I suppose if there's any connection between this and the Sunday Saying, it's that I may have lost one of my best friends in the past year (no, she's not dead, she just walked out of my life). As hard as that was, I'm sure that these relationships are going to be so great, and far less volatile than that one was in the final months. (Seriously, we were somewhere between trying hard to force things back to normal and treating every interaction like it was possibly offensive or upsetting in some way and maybe we should just let it lie.)
Anyways, here's your Sunday Saying:
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