A serious case of envy

If there's one thing I always envied Mum for was her uncanny ability to form lasting friendships. She's still in contact with some old schoolmates she went to primary school with, even though most of them still live in Transylvania, and her best friend found as an adult sat across her the desk at her first workplace in Hungary, back in 1965 for all about twenty minutes or so. That was more than half a century ago, and they still speak on the phone every day. The same with the colleagues from her second (and last) workplace in this country.
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