Meeting New Friends Analysis

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Meeting New Friends As I sit here thinking about the essay “Strangers” by Toni Morrison, I can’t help but think about my life. In class we discussed how the narrator may have wanted to make friends since she was new to the neighborhood. I can relate to the feeling of needing to make a friend in a new place. My husband is a Navy corpsman and we move around a lot. I am a very outgoing person and meeting people comes easily to me. I can stop and have conversations with total strangers anywhere. I tend to have most of my conversations at the grocery store with mothers who have children with them. I love to ask about the ages of the babies I see being carried by the mother or father. In our last duty station of Great Lakes, IL, I would take my three boys to the parks around the base…show more content…
Occasionally I would meet a woman and we would actually create a relationship and have wonderful times together. We would go to the gym together; the park for our kids to play together, and sometimes we would meet at their house or mine for lunch and time for adult conversation. In Great Lakes, I met a wonderful friend and we had great times together. We would go to church together and always meet at each other’s homes. She had a son the same age as my youngest and they played so well together. We would babysit each other’s children, also. The only flaw in this particular relationship is that I met her three months before we had to move. We tried to stay in touch but it is so difficult once you move away to keep in contact. I still enjoy making new friends and will continue to pursue friendships. As of right now I have two very good friends at this current duty station of Camp Lejeune. I have been told my whole life that all you need is one good friend. I feel blessed to have two, not including my best friend who is my

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