. adrienne was my only enduring link to my colorado past .
she and i had always been perlexed by some of the same things about boulder . neither of us had ever been able to understand the local populace's insistence about forgoing motors and using muscles - jogging , biking , cross country skiing - to ascend the local mountains . nor had either of us ever comprehended boulderites ' inclination to squander free weekends and precious holidays wandering off into the wilderness , pitching tents , squatting in the woods , and generally pretending they didn't have houses .
we were both baffled by women we knew in town who were more interested in a new backpack than they were in new earrings but beyond adddresses - we'd been across the lane neighbers - and our shared editorial critiques about the local mores , adrienne and i had little in common .
presonality wise she and i couldn't have been less alike .
still , adrienne and i were . we endured . despite the differences , despite the distance , and despite the years , she and i continued to exist as something . friend ? sure , not buddies , not .... girlfriends . not like my girlfriends here , in new jork city ir LA .
adrienne and i could never have gone shopping together . not for run . we'd never be eager to show each other the new shoes we just bought .i would never think to all her to go out to a bar for a recreation flirt with the latest crop of -- -bankers from morgan stanley or goldman sach . never .
what kept us connected ?
there was partt of me that thought we had stayed in contract because we had the natural attraction that outsiders feel for each other , neighbors in boulder , we catalyzed each other like components of epoxy . when we touched , we stuck .
in the mile -high air of boulder , each of us had been an outsider .
she and i had always been perlexed by some of the same things about boulder . neither of us had ever been able to understand the local populace's insistence about forgoing motors and using muscles - jogging , biking , cross country skiing - to ascend the local mountains . nor had either of us ever comprehended boulderites ' inclination to squander free weekends and precious holidays wandering off into the wilderness , pitching tents , squatting in the woods , and generally pretending they didn't have houses .
we were both baffled by women we knew in town who were more interested in a new backpack than they were in new earrings but beyond adddresses - we'd been across the lane neighbers - and our shared editorial critiques about the local mores , adrienne and i had little in common .
presonality wise she and i couldn't have been less alike .
still , adrienne and i were . we endured . despite the differences , despite the distance , and despite the years , she and i continued to exist as something . friend ? sure , not buddies , not .... girlfriends . not like my girlfriends here , in new jork city ir LA .
adrienne and i could never have gone shopping together . not for run . we'd never be eager to show each other the new shoes we just bought .i would never think to all her to go out to a bar for a recreation flirt with the latest crop of -- -bankers from morgan stanley or goldman sach . never .
what kept us connected ?
there was partt of me that thought we had stayed in contract because we had the natural attraction that outsiders feel for each other , neighbors in boulder , we catalyzed each other like components of epoxy . when we touched , we stuck .
in the mile -high air of boulder , each of us had been an outsider .
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