Out of the blue, as I was dealing with another difficult issue, somebody sent me copies of emails from my dearest friend who went on ahead many years ago. The surprise and shock of merely seeing her name in print after all these years was profound. I had to look away.
But then I began to read, and as I did so, an entire vanished and forgotten past came alive and became as real to me as it had ever been. The present wavered, slipped out of focus and dissolved away.
“Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.”
~ Guy de Maupassant
