Conversation Over Moo Goo Gai Pan

Conversation Over Moo Goo Gai PanI've noticed that as you get older most of your friends fall out like hair, or decay like teeth. Usually, though, there's one that you keep. You need him as a witness to what you once were — a nice-looking kid with fast hands — and eventually as a pallbearer. I had thought I'd keep Milton, but as he himself said, I always did think too much.I was in the Philippines when I got his letter, and I read it sitting on some 40-millimeter crates in an ammunition dump. At...