I reconnected with a friend I hadn't seen in ages. We met in Cambridge and spent precious sunny days on the green banks of the River Camb drinking £4 vino (No judgement - PhD stipends were never generous) and eating our favourite garlic-stuffed-olives from the town market. How I loved that market. The food was inexpensive and yet fresh and organic. When we could afford it on our student budgets it was quite a treat.
This Saturday afternoon we gorged on seafood platters in a swanky restaurant and drank a bottle of premium sparkling wine in her luxury apartment.
We laughed about those days gone by, and agreed that today we are better women because of them; and that, in fact, those days - filled with sunshine, friendship and laughter in a foreign country when our lives were usually comprised of dreary weather, endless, solitary reading and writing of dissertations whose completion seemed depressingly distant - those days of lightness and love were freaking awesome!
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