answer:Thank you for sharing your situation. It takes courage to tell strangers what happened. You have courage. Good. I want to make sure I understand one thing. Did you write to your friends apologizing? It’s not completely clear. If you wrote to them but they have not replied, I suggest you take a quiet moment by yourself. Light a candle. Think about your loss. If you want to cry, that’s OK. Cry. If the whole situation makes you angry, that’s OK, too. Be angry. The point is to take a moment by yourself and feel all the emotions this situation brings up. Feel them. Let them come. Don’t deny anything that comes up. After everything has come up, blow out the candle and throw it away. This is a symbol of leaving this situation in the past and moving ahead into your future. You will often remember things in the future, but you can remind yourself that this situation is in the past. It is not here now. You can move forward. Good luck.