When I was in college，an acquaintance who had graduated a few years prior came back to visit for the weekend.As we walked around campus on Saturday night，he threw his hands into the cold Connecticut air and exclaimed， "You guys are so lucky；you live （1）

a

a

minute away from all your friends.You'll never have this again."
    At the time，I thought it was kind of sad—a（2）

grown

grown

（grow） man pining for my life of university housing and late library nights.But his words （3）

have stuck

have stuck

（stick） with me in the years since. "In adulthood，as people grow up and go away，friendships are the relationships most likely （4）

to take

to take

（take） a hit，" my colleague Julie Beck wrote in 2015.The （5）

older

older

（old） you get，the more effort it takes to maintain connection，because you don't have（6）

as/so

as/so

many opportunities to see your friends every day.
    The writer Jennifer Senior noted last year that the fact of our choosing friendships makes them both fragile and special： "You have to continually stay involved.That you choose it is （7）

what

what

gives it its value，" she wrote.But that's also what makes friendships harder to hold on to as our lives evolve.
    It's hard but not impossible.Senior notes that when （8）

it

it

comes to friendship， "we have to create occasions that force us together：weekly phone calls，friendship anniversaries or road trips，（9）

whatever

whatever

it takes."
    "Friendship is the mare kind of relationship that remains forever available to us as we age，" Senior writes. "It's a potential source of creativity and renewal in lives that otherwise narrow with time." It's something worth （10）

choosing

choosing

（choose），over and over again.