Curious.......how many neighbors do you consider like family??

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12. I am sorry about your ex friend...

I think the worse part is not knowing what really happened (at least it is in my case which is kinda similar to yours).

Otherwise, I have many friends on the street. They are ALL better than my immediate family! Are any of us best friends? Well, I consider one of them to be pretty close but we have different circumstances and a bit of an age difference. Still, we can count on each other for just about anything. I am very close to the neighbors on either side of me. We get together for holidays and neighborhood stuff, care for each other's houses/pets when needed and borrow eggs, etc. I'd probably do more with them but my husband is extremely shy so he doesn't like a lot of social activities.

I babysit the girls across the street and have since they were 4 months old. I am closer to them than their parents but I imagine we will be friends a long time.

I am not sure what you could do short of going to your ex friend's house and talking face to face but it sounds like you have reached out as much as you can.