Which sequence best completes the text below?

Months and years passed, and I grew more distant (1)___ each (2)____ my friends. Various people flew {3) and (4) of my life. I lost some friends to distance, some to circumstance. Mostly, they just drifted away (5)____ me, toward their own lives. A few of these people are still in my life, and I'm very lucky, because not everyone still has a friend who knew them when they were seventeen.

(Adapted from http://www.notmyshoes.net/monologues/rachei.html)