Do you want to meet with them? What was your

take? I think what she might get out of that is what psychologists call cognitive closure.

She might find out what happened.

You know, I did reconnect with the friend in that essay years later at a mutual friend's funeral.

And we ended up having a thousand beers together like we always did.

And somewhere in the wee hours, we got down to the question of, hey, whatever happened to you, man? And, you know, he didn't have a good answer.

There's no good answer.

I mean,