Sarah and I met in college and instantly fell into an intense, sisterly friendship. I thought I would know her forever.
After college, our lives diverged1. I moved to New York City and started a career. Sarah moved back home, down south, got married and had kids way before I did.
As the years passed, we had less and less in common, it seemed. I drifted farther and farther away. I stopped answering her calls. I was too young to understand that old friends are the ones who can remind you of who you once were. I was too young to know that while we may grow up and shed our younger selves like snakes molting2 skin, those selves are still important and we should keep close those who knew us when and remind us of the distance we've traveled. I didn't yet know that there are many aspects of a friendship far more important than sharing a career, a neighborhood, a kid's school, a life path.
Sarah and I were connected on a level deeper than all that, and the fact that I'm not going to be pulling up my rocking chair next to hers in a nursing home some day makes me sad. I blew it. Sarah, if you're reading this, I'm sorry.
1 diverged
分開( diverge的過去式和過去分詞 )； 偏離； 分歧； 分道揚鑣
參考例句：
Who knows when we'll meet again? 不知幾時咱們能再見面！ At what time do you get up? 你幾時起床？
2 molting
n.蛻皮v.換羽，脫毛( molt的現(xiàn)在分詞 )
參考例句：
The old cuticle is digested by molting fluid. 舊表皮被蛻皮液消化。 來自辭典例句 Molting in insects is triggered by rising levels of a hormone called ecdysone. 昆蟲的脫皮是由于稱為脫皮素激素的含量升高而引起的。 來自辭典例句
