My Best Friend and I Made a Promise at 19—At 60, I Finally Got the Call

secrets, and countless afternoons together. At nineteen, sitting on the grass outside our high school, we made a promise: if we were both single at sixty, we would find each other again and explore the feelings we had never confessed.

After college began, our letters gradually became less frequent. Then, in 1986, Jeffrey wrote that he was marrying continue reading …