👋 – A Friend

‘I have a lot of people I think of as friends of at least some sort. Some might not think to name me if asked, I suspect, but that’s the way of things at times. This time of year, and the way I grew up… it’s not what people want to hear, but I think of lost ones. Not as in ex-friends, but those who are, as they say, “missing, presumed dead.” Friends like Kale, though most people knew him by the moniker of “Twinfang”, and like Darra. Well, I’m getting maudlin, and should stop with that. There are some others I’ve not seen in far too long that I’m pretty sure are still around, at least, that I hope this season will bring back around. But if I start naming them, I’ll leave people out, and that doesn’t feel fair.’