I love being supported by my friends, family, and relationships.

There's usually one person in a life who texts every Thursday for a year without ever being asked to. A cousin, an old colleague. It is not dramatic and it never gets thanked properly.

Support tends to be a network rather than a person, which is exactly why it gets underestimated. No single strand looks like it is holding anything up.

It is also unevenly distributed. Some of it arrives from people you would never list as close, and some of the people you would list first are quietly not showing up.

Name the three who actually did, this year. The list is often surprising.