True friendships may ride ups and downs and ins and outs along this roller coaster of life, but the power and comfort of a forever friend stays with you always.Sometimes, if I close my eyes and reflect on the short and yet long years I've spent on Earth, the faces of special friends from different spaces and different times in my life present themselves out of nowhere.
I sometimes flash to this heavy-eyed, somber face of my cherished friend sending me her love as I bid farewell and parted from the Paris bus station many moons ago. Having studied and grown together for a year abroad in Spain, and then coming for a short visit in France several years later, my friend and I share a lot of soul and spirit despite the distances. Remembering this moment, not knowing when our lives' journeys would next intersect, I remind myself that life is bittersweet, but nevertheless beautiful.
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