... forty-seven years after they first crossed paths in school corridors, they are still there in each other’s lives. Not close in any traditional sense, not absent either. Just two people who have repeatedly found each other across time, holding a connection that has survived distance, change, and the long habit of postponement.
And somewhere between “we should meet someday” and “it’s good to hear from you,” they have built a relationship that exists almost entirely in the space between intention and action—unresolved, but not unfinished.