I asked her what was happening, and she would only say there was nothing wrong and that nothing had changed.
After 12 years of travel adventures, Saturday afternoons at markets, deep conversations over coffee, visiting each other several times a year and helping each other with projects, she started distancing herself from me.
I received a card in the mail from her a few months ago where she mentioned, almost as an aside, that she had moved back here. I called her immediately and asked how I could have missed that she was moving back. She laughed and said she’d been here for six weeks already. Instead, we have only seen each other once in the four months she’s been back -- for 30 minutes, to watch a parade. I have reached out since then to invite her to coffee or lunch, and those messages have been returned with silence.GENTLE READER: Yes, unless you want to have one more go at facing the problem directly: “Clearly we have grown distant, and I am at a loss as to why. You say that nothing is wrong, but you cannot deny that our friendship is not what it was.
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