Life’s like a crazy roller coaster, but friendships like this are the sturdy seatbelts keeping you strapped in even during the wildest loops. They’re like indestructible forts that survive even the most epic battles of time and distance. I recently met with my brother-from-another-mother, of 23 years. Boy, it was like a favorite old song on cassette tape, humming along like no time had passed. This kind of friend, one who’d, without hesitation, face a charging rhino for you, and you them, makes you feel more than just garden-variety thankful. True friendship doesn’t count the hangouts, but the no-skip-a-beat reunions – that’s the magic that outruns the clock!