We ate the dinner I prepared. br Strong coffee followed. br Relaxing in the living room. br Talking about this and that and other things. br We had a memory or two that sustained us br in our conversations. br Our talking covered a variety of topics br and we br rambled on happily in our remembering. br Was it really over twenty years ago br that we were high school students? br This was our link, our bond, our br sense of who we were and who we are. br What I remembered you remembered. br What I believed, so did you. br We shared our views on history br as if our words were golden idols br which we could worship at our pleasure. br The only topics we skirted were those br that dealt with who we are now. br Avoiding comparisons with our ambitions, br we compared only those events that br had happened a long time ago. br Abstract meanderings on people we knew br and places we had wandered to. br We followed our coffee with dessert. br A pleasant tasting cake which br you had baked and brought to our reunion. br I wonder what flavour of ice cream br would be most appropriate br with a cake that was filled br with yesterday?br br Chris G.