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

Then, 40 minutes earlier, my childhood landline had rung. Now I was about to see him again.Telephones

I pushed open the door. Jeffrey lay in the  hospital bed. He was thinner than the boy I remembered. His hair had gone white. His face had changed.

But he was still Jeffrey.

He was thinner.

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His eyes found mine.

“Ruthie.”

My throat closed. Then I noticed the chair beside his bed.

Something was waiting on it.

And the second I saw it, I gasped and stopped breathing.