[But Ami nods, and even has a smile.]

For a long time, I didn't. A lot of things happened back then, and I wasn't in a position to make friends easily.

But I made friends here, and some of my friends from home have also been here at times. [She's been here a very long time herself, enough to see people come and go with alarming regularity.]

Right now, my friend Rei-chan from home is here, too.