<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">Friend Update: I didn't exactly call her at her office and ask her if she wanted to be friends again.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">I chickened out.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">I'm one of those people who don't like to call friends at work. I always feel like I'm bothering people when they should be working. And since we hadn't talked in a while I didn't want to just call.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">I looked her husband up on Super Pages so I could call her at home. They used to be listed so I figured I should check again. No longer there. Seriously, what is with them going all unlisted on me?!!
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">But then I remembered way back when she used a Hotmail or Yahoo or Mail email account. So I sent a short "Is that you?" type of email out to a variation of her name at each of those domains. Most bounced back. One didn't.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">And I heard from her this morning.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">We're all set for lunch.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">But I'm nervous. I found a current photo of her online and she looks great. Longer hair than before. Last time we saw each other she had this bold Tinker Bell hairstyle (but not blonde) and now she's all different.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">I've changed. I'm fat now. Ha! You know what I mean. I'm just different.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">I'll stop being ridiculous. But before I do, what if I get to our lunch and there's really been such a change in our lives since we last saw each other that we no longer can be friends. That'd be awful. Is that even possible?
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">I'm going to go think positively now.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">We are going to catch up and everything is going to be fine. Just like on my wedding day when she ran into the coffee shop with me all dressed up just for a photo opp. Not caring the whole Upper West Side must have thought we were crazy con queso.
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