""I don't want to go back," said Katie, my best friend of 20 years, from across a café table in Cape Town. A tear slid down her cheek. We were two single women traveling 8,000 miles from our respective homes - hers a one-bedroom apartment in New York City, and mine a two-story house in Charleston, South Carolina. It was the last day of a two-week girls' trip and the longest stretch we'd spent together since college."
"By the last day of this trip, we were not only "us" again, but I was me - the girl free to live any life she wanted. She felt safe breaking the rules and pushing the limits because she knew she had her best friend by her side. I felt invincible again. So, why did it have to end? Sitting in that sunny café, we decided it didn't."
Two women became fast friends in college, living as inseparable roommates and later moving to Manhattan. Marriage pulled one away and they drifted apart. After six unfulfilling years, a divorce returned the narrator to single life. A two-week trip to Cape Town reunited the friends for the longest time since college, where they rediscovered mutual safety, rule-breaking freedom, and a sense of invincibility. On the last day they refused to return to separate lives and decided to move back in together. Living together again restored their adventurous partnership and renewed a life of endless shared adventures.
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