It is like their friendship is stopped in time. They became friends as teenagers and now into their 80s, do they still think of each other as teenagers? Is David’s friend “teenaged” because they bonded during those formative and carefree years?

David’s words made me think of how I relate to my storytellers. I hear their crazy stories of their youth, their touching stories of first love and their funny moments. All the while, I take in their old photos and I see them as that young, vibrant, hopeful man or woman. Sometimes I see the child. The sparkle in their eye and sometimes the tears, dissolve the years and puts us on the same plane.