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A bazillion years ago, my friend David and I occasionally would play a game. It was more of an exercise, really, just a thing we did sometimes. We’ve had a lot of both over the years, things we tend to do together, and time. Particularly time.

Our friendship is now inching up into its fifth decade, unbroken by the years passing, spouses met and married, jobs taken and changed, or geography. It’s geography where the game comes in.

We grew up together in Arizona, meeting in a high school hallway and never finding a reason to stop meeting. I got married in 1983 and moved up here, missing...