Each time the possible reconciliatory opportunity arose, he seemed to telepath me the emphatic message: Stay away from me!
This had been going on for ten years.
No matter how hard I thought I tried, he would never make eye contact. Even during Covid, when I approached him in what I hoped would perhaps pave the way to reconciliation, things did not work out as planned.
I had long forgotten the reason for our pained and palpable silence.
Perhaps we exchanged a few emails, or perhaps not.
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