- …..after all those years of unspoken closeness—after an era cast in cement that should have been capable of withstanding even the most stalwart unmovable, irresistible forces—I could feel the two of us beginning to drift inexorably apart. We were gradually headed in opposite directions with no prominent headlines announcing this unexpected divorce. It wasn’t a tangible thing either, something right in your face, something well-defined and readily identifiable that a person could easily understand and wrap their arms around and perhaps do something about if that was one’s desire. Rather, I could just sense that a severance was happening, that our once-close relationship was slowly evaporating into thin air at the behest of fate, much as one senses it is going to imminently rain long before any ominous dark clouds begin rolling in on the western horizon…..
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