Though nearly half a century had gone by, I could still picture high school Suri on the other end of the line
Bringing up that long-ago walk in the snow she asked if I remembered that day and the fun and the cold and the hot chocolate. Again I said no and again she was very disappointed that I didn’t share the memory.
T
he conversation went something like this: Me: “Hello?”
“Hello Miriam?”
“Yes. Who is this?”
“Suri.”
“Suri who?”
“Suri from high school.”
“Suri I can’t believe it! Are you inNew York?”
Suri my old friend! We had graduated high school together 49 years earlier. Shortly after that she married and settled in our hometownChicago. When I married a few years later I moved to New York with my husband.
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