
Sometimes things happen that remind us how fleeting life really is. Today, I reconnected with the family of my childhood best friend, Andrew. He and I met when we were 5 or 6 and were best friends until my family moved from South Carolina when I was 12. We initially kept in touch, but as we got older we spoke less and less. He came to my wedding in 2002 – and that may have been the last time I spoke with him.
I’ve often thought about him, wondered what he was doing. I even Googled his name, and searched for him on Facebook a time or two. But I never really tried to find him. I never really tried to reconnect.
Tonight his mom, who was like a mother to me, found me on Facebook and soon after I learned that Andrew had passed away. Wow. [Read more...]
I got a letter in the mail the other day, and was pretty surprised at first. After all, who writes letters anymore? I opened the envelope to find a newspaper clipping with a handwritten post-it note attached. I thought to myself, “Was I mentioned in a newspaper somewhere?”
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