Reunion

Today I was witness to a remarkable event.
While I sat chatting with Tod, our friend Shinji, and two of his “older sisters” in Sugimoto’s kimono shop on the promenade leading to Nezu Shrine, two women popped their heads in the open doorway.
“Um, do you remember us?” one began. In a moment they revealed that all four women had gone to grade school together 62 years before. These 70 year old ladies turned into schoolgirls in the blink of an eye. They caught up over half a century in a flurry of words so entangled that I could not follow unless I looked at one of them at a time and read her lips.
How lucky I was to be there for that happy, once in a lifetime event. It made me wonder if I would recognise my classmates from 30 years ago in a chance encounter?