This book is about a group of people who meet and have met once a week around coffee and food for the better part of three decades. While it focuses on Wilma Brehm, Bob Brown, Vern Feen, Ray Treyens, and Steve Watkins, it could just as well be about countless other similar groups that proliferate from coast to coast in the United States. We daresay that wherever older people gather to sip, sup, and speak-anywhere around the world-it's the same fascinating gumbo of musings, trials and tales. If you had a one-on-one encounter with any of the characters in this book, you might not find it memorable. But these men and a gal are proof positive that if you get a person in the company of longtime friends often enough, the ordinary becomes extraordinary. As you read this book, we hope you will laugh with these wonderful characters, ponder what they've experienced, and cry at love shared between friends near the end of the road.