Renee Carlino

You called us fast friends. I like to think it was more.

I learned more about myself that year than any other.

I might be totally out of my mind, but would you like to get a drink with me and catch up on the last decade and a half?

I was still hanging on to the past and I didn’t know why.

Fifteen years is too long to be holding on to a few heart-pounding moments from college.

Once there was a you and me
We were lovers
We were friends
Before life changed
Before we were strangers
Do you still think of me?
—Joe

but would you like to get a drink with me and catch up on the last decade and a half?

When it was just the two of us together, it was like everything was okay and we could be Grace and Matt.

Our bodies merged into one. Sleeping alone would never feel normal again.

I reread it twice and looked up to see him wearing a huge, proud smile. Even though my eyes were selfishly tearing up, I stood and hugged him.