My wife and I have lots of friends. But they are really her friends and her friends' husbands. Sometimes I feel apart from the whole group.

我妻子和我有很多朋友。但他们其实是她的朋友以及她朋友的丈夫。有时我觉得和整个群体格格不入。

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She may have been attracted to the idea of relocating here out of her desperate attempt to put an ocean between herself and Wardi, but told everyone else, apart from her mother and intimate friends, that she is here to mourn the passing of her only son.

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