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[quote=Anonymous]Do it sooner rather than later -- you never know what the timing will be. Overseas mail can take a while so I'd get a card in the mail asap. Or an email if you have that email address.

Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Express your feelings now, while you can, about what their friendship in childhood meant to you.

A college friend died recently and I wasn't in the loop enough to know it was happening. I'd seen him just a few months previously at a reunion but obviously he wasn't talking about the cancer at that point (and apparently he was on an experimental treatment that subsequently failed and he went downhill quickly). We'd had such a great time at the reunion reconnecting over our kids' shared experiences, and his death took me by total surprise. I wish I'd had the opportunity even to email or text him and tell him how meaningful that reconnecting had been and how much he brought to my college experience many years ago. But it was too late.[/quote]

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