And you're probably wondering what life was like after Jim's lap band surgery and how Todd's divorce proceedings finished up specifically who got the kids who got the basement full of two decades worth of shit no one not even the kids had the heart to throw away and who oh who took custody of the ghosts that haunted that filthy house.
And you're probably wondering if Steve still picks his nose with savage compulsion until it bleeds raw, if he and in fact they all still scratch themselves sagely on yonder couch the same, if it still burns and itches simultaneously when John pees.
If their God smiles upon them, their women still somehow gamely by their sides, filtering, absorbing, cajoling, wheedling into line, making presentable, tolerating, heaven help them screwing, holding, occasionally joking, sitting across at dinner, playing one two three shoot to see who changes the baby helps with homework cleans up after the puppy.
What is their sandwich of choice?
Todd: Subway Meatball 12" Sub
Steve: Pastrami and Swiss on Rye
John: Wawa Tuna and Cheese Classic Hoagie
Jim: Subway Sweet Onion Chicken Teriyaki Sub
What is their current emotional state?
Todd: perplexed
Steve: preoccupied
John: reflective
Jim: new lease on life
What is the color of their mood?
Todd: The mood is blue.
Steve: The mood is invisible or opaque, unknown, secret even to self.
John: The mood is brown red, the color of foreboding curry.
Jim: The mood is green, like first sprouts.
What is the new lease on life?
It is a lighter load, a quicker walk, the shrinking of distance and the opening of possibility, it is the reignition of sex life (flower once thought dead reassumes form and once again battles gravity), the occasional guilty snack. It is the consideration of cholesterols good and bad with anything less than an insurance analyst's cold calculation of expectancy. It is the woman perhaps a year or so younger who smiled at him when he was getting gas and for a second his heart lifted hundreds of feet in the air to float smiling above Route 38, right where it meets Church Road, to float free.
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