from an email,

"it's just... REALITY has set us on very different paths.
We're no longer the same people we were when we first became friends.
That was a long... time ago.
Too much has changed"



days later

from an online chat...

"That is not called realistic. That is called snobbery. We all walk different paths in life, and sometimes some of us stumble early on, and some of us stumble later. But we all stumble sooner or later..."