How do I (easily) Create a Group E-mail List

First I want to say that I am not a dummy.  I’m pretty tech savvy, but this issue has been making me crazy for a long time.  I know that what I am about to describe be has to do (probably) with the fact Mail and Contacts work separately, unlike in Windows products.  The whole point of me moving to the Mac from Windows was to make things easier.
I have tried to see if there’s an easy way to create a Group, but I can’t seem to find the handle on this.  I repeat, I am not a tech dummy. 
Here’s the issue: Every week I send out an e-mail to a group of friends.  What I normally do (since I have not found an easier way) is to go to my Send folder, find the previous week’s email, copy all the addresses and paste into the new e-mail.
On all the Help Discussion topics I see in the Apple Forums (I’ve been to many), what it says is that you go to Contacts, Create a New Group, and then click and drag e-mail addresses into the new group.  I get it, and I’ve done that for other groups.  But this is different.
Is there not a way to simply copy all the addresses from the previous week’s email I sent and copy that into a Group?  There are too many names for me to go one by one inside the Contacts app.  Moreover, I don’t know all the contacts in the prior week’s list.  I’d have to go back and forth between the prior week’s e-mail and my Contacts list, and check names and e-mails, and then drag into the Group. 
Please Apple, there has to be an easier way. 
Macbook Pro, OS X Mavericks.

I have this same issue. I have over 100 email addresses that I need to add to a group. The issue is not making the group, it's getting the email addresses from Mail to Contacts.
Dragging the email addresses does nothing. You can copy the addresses, but there's nowhere to put them. You can make a VCF for an email address, but then you have to find all of them to add them to the group. How do you automate this?!
I'm astounded that there's so little support for such a common issue for which people have been asking for years.

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