But that doesn't work. So they develop coping strategies. She's too concerned with saying good-bye. If a friend goes, I cry, and if I go, I cry. Jenkins is not as sentimental.
Many students point out that they keep in touch with friends they leave behind.
And, unlike the legions of military dependents before them, these kids have email to facilitate the letter writing. And several said they wouldn't write to friends at all without it. Before I came here I checked my email and one just wrote me. And occasionally a student shows up at a new school to find an old classmate has moved to the same place. Then he just disappeared.