Hey. It's been a while.

I've been meaning to reach out, but work and the kids -- you know how it goes.

I think about you surpringly often. Yesterday I saw a lone coconut at the grocery store and I literally guffawed. After all these years, I still don't know how to open a stupid coconut. I hope coconuts still baffle you too. I miss being idiots together.

The truth is, I've been avoiding you. I miss you, but I'm afraid that you've changed as much as I have. I don't want to admit that maybe our magic is gone forever. Wallowing in nostalgia has been easier than feeling like this and writing it down.

I know that someday all my best memories will be behind me, but I'm not ready for that to happen yet. Not yet. Not this year.

Anyway, I'm feeling more optimistic now after a few glasses of wine. I've got big plans for 1996.

Let's catch up soon?

Happy belated new year.