My Two Best Friends and I Promised to Reunite on Christmas After 30 Years – Instead of One of the Guys, a Woman Our Age Showed Up and Left Us Speechless

Christmas, noon, this diner. All of it. He said if he couldn’t come himself, someone had to come in his place.”

“And he picked you?” Ted asked, his jaw tightened.

“Why?”

“Because I knew the things he never said to you. And because I promised him I would come.”

We stayed there for what felt like hours, though I couldn’t say how long it actually was.

Time had started to fold in on itself. Nothing moved outside that booth except the soft ripple of Jennifer’s voice and the weight of what she was telling us.

She said she met Rick just after he moved overseas.

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