Saskia and I crossed paths only briefly. It didn’t seem like briefly at the time. Partly when you’re young, time passes more slowly. Partly when you have a friend, even a fairly peripheral friend, you don’t imagine that the friendship will end, not badly, but just because that’s the way it goes. When you’re young, you’re not aware of the way people will move in and out of your life, even people who are important to you. And even for us not-young people, the nature of friendship requires suspending disbelief, ignoring the possibility that we might not have this person in our lives forever.
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Saskia and I crossed paths only briefly. It didn’t seem like briefly at the time. Partly when you’re young, time passes more slowly. Partly when you have a friend, even a fairly peripheral friend, you don’t imagine that the friendship will end, not badly, but just because that’s the way it goes. When you’re young, you’re not aware of the way people will move in and out of your life, even people who are important to you. And even for us not-young people, the nature of friendship requires suspending disbelief, ignoring the possibility that we might not have this person in our lives forever.