"It is one of the blessings of old
friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ah, old
friends -- nothing like them. And when
you couple that with getting to a certain age where you are not as concerned
with what others think, conversations are pretty amazing and funny and
comforting. At my recent dinner with a
group of girls whom I have known since before we were 9, we laughed at old
pictures of ourselves and at current photos of ourselves. We took a photo with glasses because we all
needed them to look at the old photos of ourselves. We are way past sharing our
behind-the-curtain family stories. And
when one of the "girls" described another one of us as crazy (to the
exclusion of the others), we all looked at her with looks that said,
"really?" One of the friends
brought small gifts for each one and another decided to take credit for the
gifts. We laughed at ourselves and with
each other. Acceptance is a wonderful
thing.
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