The people who reach 70 without close friends didn’t usually choose solitude — they chose everything else, repeatedly, until friendship had no room left in the schedule
There was a woman in her late sixties who once said something to me over coffee that I have never really forgotten. The older you get, the more your life becomes a list of people you either kept calling or didn’t. She said it casually, almost like she was talking about the weather. But the … Read more