{"id":2735,"date":"2021-06-29T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/?p=2735"},"modified":"2022-07-24T20:51:38","modified_gmt":"2022-07-24T19:51:38","slug":"bff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/29\/bff\/","title":{"rendered":"BFF"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Once, we met Patrick on a busy Paris metro train<\/a> in a very unexpected way. He, his wife and daughter, and his parents were travelling from Canada to visit his brother. Priscilla and I had flown in from London the evening before to celebrate my birthday. Neither Patrick, nor I knew that the other would be in the city at the same time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We were in two different carriages, so we all got off at the next station for us to meet. Patrick said that they had missed an earlier train, and I told them that Priscilla and I had taken the wrong train and were coming back round on that one. If not for those mishaps, we would not have run into each other. I don’t know what to call this other than fate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Patrick and I have been friends since we studied at the same school in Mauritius. Before Paris, we had not seen each other for more than ten years. Yet, it took us but five minutes to express our pleasure of reuniting, to hear what had happened in each other’s life, and to finally say our goodbyes. I think here is what makes male friendship special. Little is needed to reconnect us even after a long time, and there is this ingrained belief that we will always come together again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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