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12/28/2003: "Reunion"

I never kissed her when we were in high school together. It is many and many a year later, and I saw her on Christmas Eve. I recognized her quickly enough, the fact that she was sitting next to her mother helped, and she greeted me enthusiastically, so I kissed her. On the cheek. It seemed like the right thing to do at the time, and it wasn't that far wrong. I've kept up with what she's been doing in recent years, at one degree of remove, and she is one of the few I remember vividly from those days -- smart and attractive, and so doubly interesting. we were in all the same classes for years and became friends; in those days I was moody and mysterious, which is to say shy, so that was it. We went off to our colleges and our lives; my life brought me back here and hers took her elsewhere. In recent times I found that I had become friends with her parents, and I found that my walk into the future had circled back on itself. I think that's worth a kiss.