To: kim
cc:
Subject: The appropriateness of doing "Night Music" with you
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I don't know about you, but I feel like the night has been smiling a whole hell 
of a lot for  me recently, as regards you.  I always have to be polite and
formal when I'm talking  to you around  other people, so let me just say a few
things through the  relative privacy of e-mail.

It looks like things have worked out pretty well for you and Josh, as well as
for myself and Kristin.  I hope I perceive rightly that you may have found the
real thing, or at least a real thing, with Josh.  A one-year anniversary!  I'm
immensely happy for you.  I'm also feeling a little sheepish about  having so
little contact with  you since last November, after some of the things we said
and did.  I want you to know that I meant everything I said and I wouldn't take
back a word, but I think we both realize that we'd be giving up an awful lot if
we tried to reclaim some of our  past.  Let's face it, our timing just sucks. 

I hope there's no bitterness, I hope you don't feel I've been deliberately
ignoring you, I hope our friendship lasts in  whatever contorted fashion it can.
 It's great to see you again.  I'll be starting a new job soon, probably next
week, probably at a company called Cambridge Scientific Computing in Central
Square (although possibly at a company called AdValue near the Galleria).  If I
can work  it out so that Kristin does not become uncomfortable, I'd love to have
lunch with you once in a while when my paychecks start coming in.  Whaddya say?



Love,

Bob