Answer:
my "friends" never stayed in touch with me
Explanation:
Determine savings or debt is the last step in creating a budget. Where are the options???
This sentence has unequal ideas joined by a subordination conjunction.
Since the ideas in the sentence imply causation (the broken pulleys caused the inability to raise the flag) it means that the ideas are unequal. It is also necessary to join them with a subordinating conjunction, which show the causality within the sentence. In this case that subordination conjunction is "because".
They are all alone and they don’t have the same friend group, therefore they have to get out of their comfort zone.