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Vocabulary:

• I'm joined by someone.
• suffer: to experience physical or mental pain
  I think he suffered quite a lot when his wife left him.
  she's been suffering from cancer for two years.
  he suffers from asthma. 
• combat: try to stop something unpleasant or harmful from happening or increasing
  The government is spending million of dollars in its attempt to combat drug abuse.
  I have to combat this constant desire to eat chocolate. 
• in their early days
• at university
• pine for sb/sth: to want something or someone very much, usually when it is impossible to have them or when they have gone away
  he's still pining for his ex-girlfriend.
• long for sth / long to do sth : to want something very much
  she longed to see him again.
  i'm longing for news of him. 
• remind sb of sth: make someone think of something or someone else.
  your hair and eyes remind me of your mother. 
• growing: increasing in size or quantity
  there is a growing awareness of the seriousness of this disease.
• panic attack: a sudden period of severe anxiety 
• withdraw from: to stop talking to other people and start thinking thoughts that are not related to what is happening around you.
  as a child, she frequently withdraw into her own fantasy world.
  after the accident, he withdrew into himself and refused to talk to family or friends.
• stay in touch with
• phone:
  could you please answer the phone?
  we speak on the phone twice a week.
  if the phone lines are busy, please try again later.
  i left the phone off the hook, so that it wouldn't ring. 
• left sth/sb behind: to leave a place without taking something or someone with you
  we left in a hurry and i must have left my keys behind.
  he was forced to leave the country, leaving behind his wift and children. 
• expat community: someone who does not live in their own country
  a large community of expatriates has settled there.  
• take the pressure off
• struggle: to experience difficulty and make a very great effort in order to do something
  i've been struggling to understand this article all afternoon.
  fish struggle for survival when the water level drops in the lake. 
• have a hard time / give sb a hard time
• acknowledge: to accept, admit or recognise something or the truth or existence of something
• homesickness / homesick :
  as i read my mum's letter, i began to feel homesick.