“My best friend of 37 years asked me to take ONE LAST picture together during the holidays, as friends. When I asked her why she said ‘last’, she

 

She got up too.

 

When he reached the threshold, he turned around.

 

—Yesterday I said it would be our last photo as friends because I knew that, after today, you would never call me friend again.

 

 

I looked at her.

 

Thirty-seven years of memories flashed through my mind.

 

Two little girls in a schoolyard.Our first school dance.

 

My wedding.

 

The birth of my children.

 

My mother’s funeral.

 

Michael’s last night in the hospital.

 

And Susan was present in each of those memories.

 

But