“Although champagne was served, the mood was curiously subdued. After this reunion, they would probably never meet together as a class again – at least not in such numbers. They would spend the next decades reading obituaries of the men who had started out in 1954 as rivals and today were leaving Harvard as brothers. This was the beginning of the end. They had met once more and just had time enough to learn that they liked one another. And to say goodbye.”
