“Don’t have kids, dude…”
An encounter with an old friend
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3 min readMar 3, 2022
About three years into my marriage I ran into a college friend at a conference.
He looked tired, worn out, and dejected.
My friend had been married a year so more than me, and had a couple kids. We chatted about life since we last saw each other. He wasn’t doing well, and told me as such.
