30 some years ago, I was in the U.S. military stationed in South Korea. I took a mid-tour leave home and while I was there my old college roommate who was in grad school (he got a high lottery number for the draft) came to visit. Naturally we stayed up all night talking.

Of course, the subject of old friends came up. We kept getting further and further afield until I thought of a guy who was a friend-of-a-friend-of-a friend. I couldn't remember his name. My friend couldn't either, in fact could barely recall the person. We hadn't seen him since our sophomore year so it had been about 3 years.

This bothered me the rest of my leave and about the first month back. I kept seeing people with vaguely similar physical characteristics and it would come back to me. What WAS that guy's name?

Then I physically bumped into him at the mess hall! I still couldn't remember his name and had to ask him.

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