Elena

Two kids meet in high school through mutual friends and siblings. They become best friends, riding back roads and finding trouble on the side. They are inevitably separated by uncontrollable forces, but through written correspondence, their friendship endures her moving four states north and his moving three states south. Another change in life stages severs their connection, and for seven years they move through life without each other ... surviving college, the army, relationships, progress and disappointment. She moves from Rochester to Ohio to New York City. He moves from Florida to South Carolina to Arizona to Hawaii to Florida to Arizona to Hawaii to Portland then travels (slowly) across the country to Virginia to New Jersey. They float in neighboring bubbles for nearly a year and a half before, by chance (fate?), she learns he lives just 9.7 miles away from her. Immediately, she calls him. They meet for brunch and spend the entire day together, catching up and learning about one another's journeys. When night falls and it's time for them to part ways, tears well in her eyes because she doesn't want to see him go again. From that day forward, they are inseparable ...