<human>: Can you give me the gist of the text in a nutshell?

I never was the very social type.I always had friends, but i reduced my social circle only to people i can fully trust (some people havent treated me very good) . When i left for college i tried to keep in touch with my classmates mostly, but over the years i keep in touch only with my best friend. When i return to my hometown ( a small town in southern italy ), i hung out with him mostly. Over the years i have cut off contacts to some people, reducing them to only typically saying ''hi'' and stuff (there is no chance to avoid people in a small town, and i dont want to be hated by everyone).

People who meet me in person mostly have a good opinion for me. The problem is that a group of people has been spreading things about me and my best friend, without having done anything bad to them (actually, they have done bad things to me in the past).Now its reached a point i can no longer ignore them, cause they are cutting me off socially from other people they have influence over.Ive learned they spread lies about me and my friend.

A week before they talked to a good friend of my mine, and asked him the reason he hungs out with a ''person like me''

How can i turn this situation around. Everytime i return from college for my summer days i confront this situation, and every year its worse
<bot>: A group of people are turning people against me, or preventing people from meeting me by spreading lies against me. I cant ignore it any longer. What can i do