Soon after I left you, I was sitting alone in that small old crowded plane today, thinking about our weekend and how we are truly friends. I kept remembering what Derrick said... Come a certian age, people don't really change. We are all still who we were and that's a good thing.
And when I think back on the year we shared 20 years ago and why it was so special, I don't know really. All weekend, we thrashed out theories. Who said that it was our peak? Or that somewhere we shared the feeling that we were "the chosen ones". Or the awareness that we were not the same when we finished.
I think we learned quite a bit that year. Perhaps we learned to read a little more and listen a little better. We connected heart-to-heart with people from other contiennts. We asked more questions. We laughed. We even cooked - a little.
But I like to remember us walking. Walking the path to Langdell, past the Science Center, across the Yard. I like to remember us walking and talking. Like this morning.

20 years later, at Ames Hall.... if that room could talk!