Matthew Dix

There's a second verse, a bridge, and another chorus.

I will not share them with you, but we sing them that day.

Because I watch the gummy bears too.

And to this day, I can sing that song.

And that's it.

A single theme song to a cartoon melts all the ice between us.

And 37 years later, he is still my best friend.

It is the most significant relationship in my life, with the exception of my marriage.

When I get thrown out of my house when I'm 17, Benji takes me in and lets me live in his college apartment.

And when I'm 21 and I need a credit card and can't get one, he gives me his extra card and says, just use it and pay me when you can.

He saves my life again and again and again.

And this day we live in Connecticut, two miles from each other.

And when I think back on that day that I stood at that bin and sang a cartoon song to him, I'm reminded how little it takes to sort of reach out to someone and just open the crack of a window.

And you just get the window open, and then it becomes a door, and it becomes a lifetime.

Thank you.