"Greetings! Are you my old friend?" This was my Facebook message to my childhood friend, Kevin, in December 2009. I was fairly certain I had found him. The profile picture seemed right on, even though it had been about 20 years. With my certainty came surprise that he had never answered me.
Today, I know why. Visiting his page again almost two years later, I saw an update reflecting his passing one month before I had written. He never got my message.
Kevin was an extremely gifted boy when we were friends. I'm sad that we lost touch, and that he's gone before we ever had a chance to share where life had taken us. I know he became a gifted writer, and shared his battle with cancer on his blog. I'll remember him fondly, and I'll always feel a little guilty for the irritation I felt that he never wrote me back.
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