“This isn't__8__,” he replied. “Although it__9__just as well have been family. Old Ed was my oldest friend. In fact, we used to call each other ‘Old Friend’ when we'd meet. I'm not much good at__10__.”
“I don't think any of us keep__11__our letters too well,” I said. “I know I don't. But I__12__it he's someone you've known quite a while?”
“All my life. We were kids together, went to school together and all the__13__through high school.”
“There are not too many people who've had such a long friendship,” I said.
“__14__,” the driver went on, “I hadn't seen him more than once or twice a year over the past 25 or 30 years because I__15__away from the old neighbourhood and you slightly lose touch__16__you never forget. He was a great guy.”
“You said ‘was’. Does that mean...?”
He nodded. “__17__a couple of weeks ago.”
“I'm sorry,” I said. “It's no fun to lose any friend and losing a real old one is__18__tougher.”
He didn't __19__to that, and we rode on in silence for a few minutes. But I realized that Old Ed was still on his mind when he spoke again, almost more to himself than to me: “I should have kept in touch.”
“Well,” I agreed, “we should all keep in touch with old friends more than we do. But things__20__and we just don't seem to find the time.”
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