End of an Era

Last night we gathered at Bua, a favorite spot of ours in the east village, an upscale Irish bar with hot bartenders, a porch out front and reasonably priced drinks. While Bua is always one of our favorite happy go-to's, last night was a more somber occasion as we were gathering for a goodbye to one of our close friends, P. She's off to teach English in Italy for the summer & then to Istanbul in the fall.

While it's typical of New Yorkers to come and go, we all started in the fashion closet at W magazine together & spent our formative years right out of college going to drunken brunches that turned into 15-hour binge fests, throwing summer parties on P's roof on the lower east side, spending work nights out partying until 2 am when one of us was having boy problems (which, let's face it, was most of the time), meeting together for dinners to discuss life, work & men. Typical New York activities with your girlfriends that get you through the tumultuous years of your twenties. As we grow older and all move in different directions with our lives, we'll always remember these years & hopefully still have the friendships to fall back on. Even so, as we go to see SATC2, our usual foursome will be a threesome, which is just not the same.

We'll miss you P, but you'd better believe that we'll be visiting you in Istanbul and bringing along all of our New York shenanigans.

xx H&J

H & P

J & R

The usual crew.

One last photo of our foursome in NY. We'll miss you P!