<p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">I'm so excited. Found a lost friend. 
</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">Last time I saw her, my daughter was fifteen months old.
</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">We grew apart. Actually, no. She wrote me off.
</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">I missed her son's baptism.
</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">And although we were really close (she was my matron of honor), she got pissed.
</span></p><p><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="font-family:Georgia">Told me off in an email. Rightfully so. </span><span style="font-family:Wingdings">L</span><span style="font-family:Georgia">
			</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">Without knowing I was pregnant again.
</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">And having deep dark morning sickness.
</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">That made me not want to leave my couch. Ever.
</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">Of course it didn't stop me from being able to use a phone.
</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">I didn't use the phone.
</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">Didn't respond to her email.
</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">This situation is all my fault. 
</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">She doesn't live here. And used to work hours away.
</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">Found out she's been working in Manhattan across the street from a friend's apartment.
</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">That apartment has a terrace that looks into her office window.
</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">Yup, that close. For the past year or so.
</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">Manhattan is a small, small world.
</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">The thing is… her work email is not public.
</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">So I'm thinking of calling her at work. Which I wouldn't normally do.
</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">Because what do you say to someone after so many years?
</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">Besides "please don't hang up".  Maybe - 
</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt"><em>I've been a bad friend. And I've been sad we no longer talk.
</em></span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt"><em>Oh and by the way, I have three children now.  
</em></span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt"><em>I know I owe you a lot of drinks.
</em></span></p><p><span style="color:#4f81bd; font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt"><strong>Get back in touch with a long lost friend? Everything A-OK now?</strong></span></p>