Reach out and chav someone

Dearest R: I am comforted to know that, even though I haven't seen you in years, you continue to occupy a small space in the world, and live and breathe somewhere not so very far away. We talk on the phone almost weekly, and I can't imagine what problems we can't solve in those hours. The connections between everything seem so clear when we talk, drawing the lines from one thing to the next. I like to imagine we are having coffee together, that we are at your house with your giant dogs, or at mine out on the porch. I appreciate that you exist, because I need you, and I don't ever say it enough: thank you for it all.