 Tam Valley Elementary School, 1981, which is located in Mill Valley across the bridge. This is my new friend, Mirabai. That's Harmony talking. She's nine. Hi, nice to meet you. Painfully shy. Nice bell bottoms. Heeheeheeheehee. Harmony's apartment, 1981. Let's play make believe. I'll be a panda bear, named Har Har. I'll be a steed that lives by the lake. Call me Mimi. I want to be a penguin. You can be meow-mow. I don't like that name. How about meow meow Meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, art class, 1982. So we were about, I was about nine here. Hey, meow, meow. Isn't that an ugly color? Paint washing down the drain. Yeah, ew, yuck. Actually, I was kidding. I think it's pretty, it's brood, huh? On second thought, so do I. Social studies, 1983. Writing to Harmony. Do you want to have lunch today? Scribble. I'm having lunch with Mira by the next two days in a row. Oh, really, I'm over it, it's cool. Sleepover in 1984. What if the universe is just an atom in a giant's toenail? Ooh, and what if each of our toenails filled with millions of universes? What if the universe is all one big experiment? And what if we're all sitting in an alien scientist's test to being observed? Mill Valley Middle School, 1985. Hey, meow, meow. We need to tell you something. When we were kids, we never really liked you. So sad. We only hung out with you because we felt sorry for you. We've been feeling guilty about it, so we wanted to come clean. We like you now, so don't worry. We can still be friends. What if they're still lying to me? And so begins a lifetime of trust issues. Slumber party, 1985. Yeah, you better run, you little poser. Hey, don't, F word, sorry kid, with Mari. Technique, 1986. Wow, this is so cool. It's super easy. It's called stippling. I'll show you how. Stipple, stipple, stipple. English class, 1986. Do you want to read my poem? Sure. Cool, it sounds like one of mine. No, it doesn't. Later. It kind of does sound like one of hers. Vodka 101, 1987. You're such a good friend, Mimi. I really love you. She's the only sober person at the party drinking water. Stumbling home. That's it, almost there. You're my guardian angel, erp. Parents. That nearby is a bad influence. Just say yes, 1988. I've seen what happens if you go down that road. You're just being approved. Drugs are overrated. Don't knock it till you try them. San Francisco, 2007, sometime has passed. And we've been out of touch for some time. My throat hurts every time we hang out. We talk so much. I know. Maybe it's because we were out of touch for so long. Lots to catch up on. I don't know. I think it was always like this. Ever since that sleepover when we talked about the cosmos, atoms, and our toenails, you remember that too? I thought you were so deep. That was probably the first interesting conversation I ever had. Marin Headlands, 2011. You were such a bully. That time in grade school, you tricked me into thinking you hated a color and got me to say I hated it too. And then you changed it around on me and said it was pretty. So I sounded like a jerk who hates pretty things. The thing is, when you said you hated it, I could see why. Green equals phlegm. But when you switched it, I could see it's beauty too. Green equals trees. But then I hated myself for sounding like a lemon. Lemon. I was such a stinker. Millennium Restaurant, 2012. Happy 40th. Oh, it's the doctor. I'm sorry. I've got to take this call. Don't be sorry. Go. Hello. I've got MS. Oh, thank god. I was worried you had a tumor in your brain. But it's MS. I mean, MS is manageable. It is. How do you know? I've got five friends with MS, and they're all fine. Anyone with MS? I just don't want this to define me. It doesn't have to. You're going to be OK. What if she's not? Thank you.