My friend G. has been living in Austria as a U.S. Expatriot for several years. Recently I asked him if I could come and visit early next year. He replied, "Of course you can. Duh!"
I wanted to share this profound statement because it made me realize that the BEST thing for me about old friends is how precisely I can hear that "Duh!" in the last e-mail. Every quality of his voice, his tone, his inflection sounds off in my head. It is really only with the people you've known a loooooong time that the internal voice-overs turn on automatically.
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