One of long ago friends from college and working at summer camp is Tina Wells Robinson. She and her husband, Dr. Michael Robinson, have been raising their kids on Guam for 14 years. He is a doctor at at the SDA clinic here. And in his spare time he cares for his backyard garden, including this great papaya orchard. I think they have the nicest papayas on Guam because he dug the planting holes deep and filled them with compost.
Dr. Robinson was working the afternoon we stopped by, but Tina enlisted Rob's help, and a long pruning saw to get a couple ripe papayas down for us to take home.
The neat thing is that Tina has a nice daughter, and now our daughters are friends too.
All these kids on the island are feeling bad because they think that they might not ever see each other again, but I would like them to take a lesson from the friendship of Tina and I. After all these years we have seen each other again, and we are even better friends then before. True friends are priceless, and can pick up friendship quickly when paths cross once again.
I agree: what you say about friendship is true. These children even have easier ways to keep in touch than you and I did when we were their ages. And I think something else is true: even if they never see each other again on this earth, the missing each other is not nearly as sad as the being together has been full of joy.
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