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

The diner? No excuses. Life can take us in all directions, but we’ll come right back.

Okay?”

We laughed like idiots and shook on it.

Now

Back in the diner, Ted’s fingers tapped his coffee mug.

“He was serious about that night,” Ted said. “Rick was serious in a way we weren’t.”

At 24 minutes past noon, the bell above the door rang again.

I looked up, expecting to see Rick’s familiar slouch and that apologetic grin he always wore when he was late, like he wasn’t sorry enough to rush, but sorry enough to feel bad about it afterward.

Instead, a woman stepped inside.

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