Goodbye
An old friend of mine died tonight.
We had not been close in many, many years and maybe saw each other once or twice a year. Some years.
But when we were younger, we were sometimes the very best of friends.
And I can truthfully say —in all my own sweet, short life— that she is the only woman I have ever been in love with. The only one whose affections ever really mattered. The only one who ever gave me the hope of a man.
May God’s love be with her husband and baby boy tonight. And may all our friends together forgive me my cold heart and look upon the abandonment I made of our bonds as an act of mercy.
