I’m linking up with Lisa-Jo Baker, and the prompt today is “together.”
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Together is one of those words that should be happy:
“We’re in this together.”
“So happy together.”
“…as long as we’re together.”
Together just reminds me that we – several we’s – are not. Not together. Not anymore.
You’ve moved. You’ve gotten married. I’ve stopped coming to the meetings. We don’t live in the same state or country anymore. You’ve had kids. We had a fight, and now it’s better, but it’s still too weird to be together. The semester has started, or it’s midterms, and then it’s finals, and so we’re both going crazy, so when we should fight for time to be together, all we want to do is sleep, because sleep doesn’t happen that often, and we have to do it to live.
And it would be weird to sleep together, at least on a regular enough basis to call it “together.”
I could call. You could call. We would say, “Let’s get together sometime. I miss you.” The “I miss you” part would be true.
But we won’t necessarily get together, for all the same reasons that we don’t get together now. Or if we do, it will be because we said we would and we don’t want to be people who say things that they don’t mean. It will be rushed and awkward.
And wonderful. Because we’d be together, if only for an hour.
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M. Suzanne Terry 
I love your take on together. It often true that life gets in the way, and it is hard to get together. I recently had to steal a moment with a friend because our inability to get together. We met at Sonic while her husband and son got haircuts. It was good together if only for a short while. Thanks for linking up!
I love stealing moments with busy friends – it makes me feel like we’re on a secret mission. Thanks for the response, Latonya!