Story 45

 
 
 

BEST FRIENDS FOREVER

A friend is, as it were, a second self.  (Cicero)

I came across these two wonderful Ukrainian women, Reva and Fanja, walking down their driveway in Cleveland, Ohio.  I could not stop myself from considering the possibility, because of the basketball nets behind them, that they had just finished a little ‘one on one’ and that Reva was concealing her high tops in her shopping bag.  Because of their age, both well into their 90s, I surmised, they could not jump too high, so they used the small net for dunking.  They both passed away within a week of each other a few years back.

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