What do you think of Julia’s words about family vs. friendships on p. 271: “I had learned that outside family, people came into our lives and stayed a while, as we learned and grew with each other. But mostly, they left us again, as we inevitably moved on, as we each needed different people in our lives.” Do you find this true in your own experience? Do you think it was truer in the early 1900s than it is over 100 years later?