Well, It's Been A While

I know it has been a while since I've written, and it's not for lack of wanting. I've been busy. There's sort of a pandemic going on. Because it will probably be the best documented pandemic in history, I won't dwell much on what I've been doing. Let's just say I've had less busy times.
One of the interesting things about Facebook is that it allows you to connect with people from all over your life. I write that meaning that life has more than one dimension. You can go backwards and forwards in time with regards to your life, and no one along that continuum is ever really the same. You change, your friends change, and your life as a whole changes.
When I was in El Paso/Juarez, I knew a certain family, the Cardiel-Dominguez family. I first knew about them when Mom asked me to be in the quinceañera party for one of the older girls. I must have been 12 or 13. Mom, on the other hand, had known them for a very long time, since before I was born. It was at that meeting that I met Iris, and, as they say, the rest is history. Well, it's not history, but it's not something that is worth me dwelling on for paragraphs.
Last week, I got in touch, through Facebook, with two of Iris' sisters, Alejandra and Dulce. It was Dulce that told me about Iris working for the State of Chihuahua, and she gave me Iris' phone number. I called and talked to Iris today, and I realized that not necessarily everything changes. The idea we have of a person doesn't change, but the person does. Iris has changed, and so have I. But our idea of each other is probably still there.
It's weird. I'm all grown up now.