Dan Harris

Really?

Yes.

So I had a really good group of friends in high school and also some good friends in college.

But I was always jealous of my little brother who loved his college so much and really had this crew that just he felt they were so smart and he felt so embedded in it.

And I never had that.

All through my 20s, I was kind of moving around in television news from small market to small market.

And I had friends, but I just didn't – I never felt like I had my crew.

And –

And then when I turned 30, or actually in my late 20s, I moved to New York City and started working at ABC News.

And for the first couple of years, I was traveling so much.

It was post 9-11.

I was in war zones and I was just, you know, away for long periods of time.

And I came home in 2003 after, I think, six months in Iraq.

And I didn't have... I really just... The few friends I had in New York City had moved away and really didn't have...

I felt very lonely.

We're coming back to this.

A guy from work, a guy I didn't even really like that much, invited me to a party.

At that party, I met a bunch of people I really liked.

One of them, who's still one of my best friends to this day, her name is Kayama.

Kayama came over to me and said,