My name is Harold, and back in 1970, the four of us—Tommy, Ray, Nick, and I—spent every summer afternoon at the small lake just outside town.
At seventeen, friendship felt permanent.
We believed we’d always have the same jokes, the same arguments, the same scratched-up wooden bench beneath the old willow tree.
We were young enough to believe life would wait for us.
It didn’t.
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