Paul was one of my best friends in high school, but we drifted apart after graduation. We weren’t good about staying in touch, and it had been years since we’d seen each other. I blew off my 20th reunion two years ago. Don’t get me wrong: I love witnessing the ravishing effects of time on bodies that aren’t mine; it’s just that you have to go through so much lame small talk to see the train wrecks. But I really wanted to know how Paul was doing. We were close once. It felt wrong that we’d gone through 22 years of life experiences without talking. If we reconnected, I wondered, could we still be friends? Does the raw material for friendship remain intact despite decades of separation?
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/04/magazine/04lives-t.html?ref=magazine
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