When We Were 19, My Best Friend and I Pr0mised That If We Were Both Single at 60, We’d Find Each 0ther – I Turned 60 Last Tuesday, and My Old Landline Rang

I looked at him.

He had Jeffrey’s eyes.

“Is he awake?”

“He’s trying to stay awake for you.”

For a moment, I almost turned around.

I was sixty years old.

I had spent most of my adult life learning how to exist without Jeffrey.

And less than an hour earlier, I had been sitting alone in my childhood home when the old landline rang.

Now I was about to walk into a room and see the person I had once believed would always be part of my life.

I finally opened the door.