"Hi, John. Your former classmates are graduating, and having a party tomorrow. We'd like to see you there."
"Gee. I'd like to. On the other hand, I feel kind of as though I've finally healed up after the hysterectomy, and now I've been invited to a baby shower."
"That's understandable. But when are we ever going to be together again?"
"I'm over forty and my kids are grown, I suppose I don't have to do anything I really don't want to do. But maybe I really do want to go to this."
"Besides, Corporal R.N. is being sent back for a second tour in Iraq right after graduation."
"Oh, dear. He deserves a kind word at the very least. It's a disgrace on all of us that all that nonsense is still going on."
"Okay, see you there."
//The Magic Eight-Ball says, "It's remarkable the things people really do want to do."\\
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