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I don't have friends, and it's hard for me to make new friends. Right now, the people that are in my life are the people that I work with.
Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day
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Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
ENE
Hint 3 another clue
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