Sharing Secrets
2003-03-21 - 6:58 p.m.

So here I am, sharing secrets with one of my childhood antagonists.

When I was ten, I could hardly have imagined a situation like this. Thoughts of truce were more than drowned out by the constant irritation of her percieved teasing and mocking. Perception is reality, as they say, and it was real to me.

That was a long time ago. Tonight, we are older. Tonight, we are wiser. Tonight, time, the great equalizer, has made us equals. Tonight, even if never again, we speak, not as enemies, not as aquaintances, but as friends.