And as I cried upon hearing the news - and receiving periodic updates as I took photos of the MoTown Christmas parade - that coworker was there to console me . It meant a lot , and it still does , knowing there are at least a few people here I can turn to despite not having known a single one of them just 15 months ago . Since moving to North Carolina in May 2007 - a whole four days after my college graduation - I ' ve come a long way .

Question: Why were you able to create friendships to have people to turn to ?
Answer: I was friendly and extroverted with my colleagues and did my best to make friends because I was all alone out hereI bought lunch for my colleagues all the time to try and make them like me and it worked outI had spoken to many of these people online for a while so we knew one another in some senseNone of the above choices .