"If we think of our memories as having a shape, then one possibility is that they come in the shape of a box..... And so it happened that one day a box was delivered to me. I can’t say how big it was or what it looked like, but there was no mistaking that I had received it."

A thirty-something, successful woman travels to her rural town to attend a school reunion. Casual conversation results in her having flashbacks of a friendship with someone forever lost in time. You may read the story here.