using linkers adverbs and appropriate idioms to make the sentence more fluent natural and colloquialYes I have a friend whom I have known for almost 10 years We used to go out together very often but

Yeah, definitely! I've got this buddy of mine, we've been tight for nearly a decade now. We used to hang out all the time, you know, like peas in a pod. But hey, life happens, right? She had a little one a couple of years back, and between her family and job, things have slowed down between us.