Around Christmas time, every year, this group of friends (some 8 to 10 couples at any given time depending on travels, foreign postings, etc.) come together just because...
This friendship has spanned decades. In fact, I am the Johnny come lately. It is mind boggling how, through individual evolutions, couplings and uncouplings, the crash of '97 and now the world-wide financial depression, the tsunami in Thailand, Milenyo in Manila, two Edsa revolutions, several coup attempts, and middle age creeping in, this group manages to get together every year no matter what. Except for last Christmas, which was the first that I am aware of in 15 years.
It is sheer pain to organize an evening when everyone can make it. Believe me, it is nuclear physics. Just to find a date when everyone can converge at a specific time and place is an exercise in patience and perseverance. Still and all, the effort is justified by the warmth and goodwill that instantly takes over when we all come together (not to mention the chismis). Can't buy friendship.
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