Wow, well I just responded to one a comment on another of your posts about loving and growing together or coming apart and then here you are getting a big post payout on just that! Life can be synchronistic and magic :)
Glad you and your friend were able to connect. I had something similar with a woman I was once close to and haven't seen in years and we'd both gone through enough to recently bring us back together too. We just randomly ran into one another at the grocery store :)