[It had been the opposite, really. Ami hadn't had a single friend for most of her childhood, until she was fourteen and in junior high and met Usagi. Those girls who buzzed around her before then? Strictly there to either make fun of her, wheedle homework help out of her, or ask to meet her mother, a famous doctor.
It's no small wonder that she keeps herself guarded, though the helpfulness is sincere.]
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It's no small wonder that she keeps herself guarded, though the helpfulness is sincere.]
It's not really much.