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I hate when my close friends grow me apart.

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May I ask what becoming mature has to do with grow apart?
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I hate when my close friends grow me apart.
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I hate it when my close friends grow apart from me.
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I hate it when my close friends grow apart from me.
Your friends do not grow apart 'from' you. You can only say: my friends and I grew apart over the years or after seeing them on the ten year reunion, it dawned on me how much my friends and I had grown apart, we don't keep in touch at all anymore.
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grow apart (from sb) to stop having a close relationship with sb over a period of time: As we got older we just grew apart. Since moving to London, he’s grown apart from many of his friends.

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