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

This was where we said we would meet again.

Ted was already there when I walked in. He was sitting in the corner booth, coat draped neatly beside him.

His hands were wrapped around a mug like he’d been warming them for a while.

His hair had gone silver at the temples, and there were deeper lines around his eyes, but the smile he gave me was familiar enough to pull me straight back to who we used to be.

“Ray,” he said, standing up. “You actually made it, brother!”

“It would’ve taken something really serious to keep me away,” I replied, pulling him into a hug. “What, you think I’d break the only pact I ever made?”

He laughed under his breath and slapped my shoulder.

“I wasn’t sure, Ray.

You didn’t reply to my last email about it.”

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