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It gets harder to make friends as you get older

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Apparently it's more difficult to make friends as we get older. In one survey from AARP (the American Association of Retired Persons) half of all adults said that making new friends becomes harder with age, with time constraints and a lack of social opportunities among the reasons. In the same survey close to 90% said they were open to making new friends, not necessarily that they didn't want new friends. 
7 Oct 5AM English South Africa News

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