Thursday, December 16, 2010

les amis

i receive an e-christmas card from an old friend. we go back twenty years, to our postgraduate days, when bonds are woven from comradeship common foes and incomprehensible reasons. a card reaches me every year in each of the scattered places i spend my christmases, although i have not laid eyes on him for many of them.

some people reach out and consider you their friends in the face of odds. these people pay their friends an immeasurable compliment of kindly regard. i am honored by these friendships, and by this one.

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