Former classmates from high school and college are trickling into my Friends List, and I wonder what will come of this electronic reunion. None of us, of course, are the boys and young men that we used to be.

After watching The Untamed last year I've always wondered how it would be to grow old with one friend--abandon everything, including our intellectual pursuits and our art--and live in a faraway place in Nature until we die. That's what the two men did in the movie, but then again they had no families, they were both single, and they were both unattached. 

Sometimes real friendship survives only in fantasy.