I’m still really close with everyone at home and their parents - and their brothers and sisters. I was so, so, so lucky to grow up as part of a community and I don’t take that for granted. I try very hard to stay part of it.

Garner emphasizes continuity and gratitude: success and mobility have not severed her ties to the people and networks that formed her. By naming not only friends but also “their parents” and “their brothers and sisters,” she frames community as intergenerational and relational rather than merely social. The repetition (“so, so, so lucky”) underscores that belonging is experienced as a gift, not an entitlement, and her insistence that she “try very hard” suggests that maintaining roots requires deliberate effort—especially for someone whose career pulls her away. The quote functions as a modest ethic of loyalty: fame is secondary to sustaining the everyday bonds that provide identity, accountability, and care.