True Encounters

~Encounter one:

It was early in the evening and we were settling down to cuddle on the couch when the phone rang. Answering it, I found to my delight, it was a friend from long ago with whom I'd lost contact. We talked for a little while, and in that time I found she was no longer the happy-go-lucky young woman who loved life to the fullest, but a broken, discouraged and depressed person who'd endured many a difficult situation. Of course my heart went out to this friend, a good friend that h...