We are all familiar with the concept that there are certainly people who you can reconnect with after years of not seeing and you both just pick up where you left off.

Will Coulter is one of those people for me.

He transferred from Colorado to my high school in Alabama in 11th grade. I have no memory of actually meeting him, but I can’t think of my Senior year without thinking of him.

Will is also a reminder to me that while most people tend to operate from a “default personality”, when we pair up with certain people, it can spotlight certain traits even more.

Put Will and I together, and you get… two wild and crazy guys!

There was that time we ended up with access to a giant garbage bag full of fast food hamburgers left over from a church function and we decided we were naturally obligated to see how many of them we both could eat; back at my parents’ house afterwards, sometime close to midnight.

There was that time we joined a last minute road trip for a “college for a weekend” event to a ridiculously strict conservative school, because… at least it was a free trip to Florida?

And there may or may not have been multiple instances involving me driving around in my parents’ hunter green Ford Aerostar minivan late at night down dirt roads, while Will and some of our other friends happened to have paintball guns… using old street signs as targets.

Recently, I pulled out our Senior Yearbook from 1999. Will was voted “Most Loveable” while I was voted “One and Only”. I thought it was interesting what he wrote in my yearbook:

“Nick, it has been great knowing you my Senior year. I look forward to hearing from you later on in life. Keep in touch, Nick. Your friend, William.”

Last Friday night, Will happened to be in town. Obviously, we had no other option than to recreate the photo my mom took of us the moment we graduated high school. We are still both unclear on the exact reason he was holding a walrus.