Twenty years is, after all, a long time. We are not the same people we were. Old friends, lovers, even family members: they are strangers who happen to wear a familiar face. We have no right to claim to know anyone after such a distance.

Graham Joyce
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The statement that a person has been a friend for twenty years is a statement that is hard to believe. If you have been friends with someone for twenty years, what does that make you? Friends for life, or just friends from the same neighborhood for twenty years? You can’t tell someone you’ve known for twenty years if they are a completely different person.

Source: Some Kind Of Fairy Tale

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