Just Write {49}

We were walking down to the dock and one of my all-my-life friends was talking about income tax changes and how things got all wonky with moving to a different state. It was all like a foreign language to me, since numbers were involved. We talked then about how weird it is for us to sit around talking about things like taxes and school choices for our children and what we look for when we’re buying a home. It’s so adult of us to talk about these things, but I look at you and think you look the same as you always have,

way back to childhood.

Who are these grown-ups? Shouldn’t your parents be taking care of that whole tax thing? and we laugh.

We sit three in a row on the edge of the dock and splash our feet in the water. It’s the most beautiful late afternoon, a breeze coming off the lake and the water feels warm. We of course are laughing about old and new things and we’re spouting off rapid fire stories and cracking each other up like always.

I sat and thought about how much richer their humor is and I don’t know how that can be, since they’ve always been so funny. I guess it comes with being the grown ups, always finding a way to laugh. There’s so much practice at over-coming with humor. The sleep-deprivation and the bullies at school and the marriage struggles and the trying trying trying.

We sit together like always and we laugh and don’t hide the hard things either.

It had been too long and it wasn’t long enough, there on that dock. There’s so much to say, with all these years between us and all these months of no time to get together. I just can’t ever get enough, of these people who knew me before I was a wife or mother or any kind of grown up at all. These friends that continue to know me as I change and slowly grow up, and then they still keep me and we sit on the edge and splash in the water like always.

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