AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWSOME! Thank you for sharing!
This is a really great story and it made me smile 
That’s great! I hope your friendship picks up right where it left off! And may your wives become friends also!
My cold black heart, much like the Grinch’s, grew three sizes and broke the measuring device reading the OP…
Joe
That’s absolutely lovely. I’m so glad for you.
And that’s it: I’m gonna find a way to pack this family onto a plane and go see my best friend from when we were seven.
You’re lucky.
Twice.
Hooray! Happy endings
I find myself wondering if maybe there isn’t more to the mother and sister’s vagueness, though. Just a random thought, but maybe they’re religious and he turned out to be a godless heathen? Or maybe they’re (emotionally) distant because they’re homebodies, and he got bitten by the wanderlust bug?