<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class="">My Old Friend<br class=""></div><div class=""><i class="">for all of my old friends</i><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">My old friend lives far away<br class=""></div><div class="">from me and<br class=""></div><div class="">I live far away <br class=""></div><div class="">from my old friend.<br class=""></div><div class="">We send email back and forth<br class=""></div><div class="">from time to time,<br class=""></div><div class="">a photo, a song, or<br class=""></div><div class="">something in the news.<br class=""></div><div class="">I am a part of my<br class=""></div><div class="">old friend’s life,<br class=""></div><div class="">only a part,<br class=""></div><div class="">and my old friend is a <br class=""></div><div class="">part of my life, too,<br class=""></div><div class="">but just<br class=""></div><div class="">a part.<br class=""></div><div class="">We share good memories.<br class=""></div><div class="">One day my email will not be answered. <br class=""></div><div class="">Or perhaps<br class=""></div><div class="">one day I will not<br class=""></div><div class="">be here to open<br class=""></div><div class="">my old friend’s message.<br class=""></div><div class="">One of us will become <br class=""></div><div class="">pure memory.<br class=""></div><div class="">Sooner or later<br class=""></div><div class="">both of us will<br class=""></div><div class="">disappear into the<br class=""></div><div class="">land of eternal forgetting.<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Eric T. MacKnight</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></body></html>