Answer the following questions to better understand the text. (Para. 1) 1 What is the question the author got in her email? (Para. 2) 2 What kind of situations can’t help but affect a friendship? (Para. 3) 3 Give an example to explain what the author means by “the friends themselves may change”. When does it hurt less when friendships break? And when does it hurt most? (Para. 4) 4 What does the author want to say by comparing a friendship to a flower garden? (Para. 5) 5 What does the author compare conflicts to?