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awkward college reunions, part 2

So, there's this guy who works here on campus who I was certain was a guy I knew when I was at that other university... back in my drunken auschwizian days. I never approached him, partly for fear it wasn't him, partly for fear he wouldn't remember me, and partly for fear he'd like to forget that time in his life. I remembered he was a good-hearted person, who didn't fit in with most of the folks I hung out with at the time. Looking back, that was pretty good.

We had a handful of mutual friends, some of whom I've stayed in touch with over the years, some of whom I no longer speak to, and some whom I've completely lost touch with. Some of whom dont want to ever remember that time in their lives.

A couple weeks ago, I emailed the distributed consulting list here at State, to find out about locking down Perl on our servers. One of the responses back to me (directly, not to the list) was from him, which confirmed my suspicion that the person I'd seen was the person I knew.

I sent back a reply thanking him for the reassurance I was doing what was right, and noted that his name sounded familiar. Today, I got a reply back from him saying that my name sounded familiar to him, and how would we know each other.

I explained who our mutual friends were, and how I hadnt spoken to the one who had introduced us for quite some time, and how some folks from the old days have been trying to forget everything and everyone about them, so I had been afraid to say hello when I had seen him on campus.

So... back came an email invite to lunch. Tomorrow, in fact.

This could be cool.

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