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...three years, I lived secure in my familiarity, convinced that the face of death was a stranger to my peers. I thought that perhaps the urgency of friendship I feel because of death's presence in my life was unknown to my friends...
...friendship especially have I felt the hand of mortality. My best friend from high school, a woman who graduated in December from the University of Wyoming, ceased speaking to me two years ago. When thought of death overtook me in these years. I thought often...
...father and I began our friendship several years before I ever spoke to her. He was friends with my family physician, Dr White--every fall they would go hunting together. When Dr. White learned I wanted to keep bees, he told my father to introduce me to Dr. Fitzsimmons...
...began my apprenticeship when I was in fifth grade. Dr. Fitzsimmons continued to teach me about bees and prairie plants until mid-high school, when I had to abandon beekeeping for academic pursuits. In ninth grade, I struck up a friendship with Regina, the youngest of his nine children. We were united in adversity against the hypocrisies of our respective schools, both singlesex pre schools...
...said, however, we haven't talked since early 1990. I never quite figured out why (and now it doesn't matter), but for a long time Regina wouldn't return my phone calls or letters. Feeling the hand of death on our friendship, I slipped back into nostalgia, and hoped that sometime we would be friends again...