The real prize at Los Alamitos

Despite the fact that we all went to high school together,

I did not know either of these people until the last couple of years.
They are now, oh so gratefully, two of my best friends.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world  
possibly not born until they arrive.
- Anais Nin 

Two may talk together under the same roof for many years,
yet never really meet;
and two others at first speech are old friends.
-Mary Catherwood