I have one very close friend who lives in Virginia, and I live in Oregon. I moved away over 20 years ago. When we get together we pick up right where we left off the last time. We were business partners in addition to being close friends, so we have all kinds of experiences toghether to draw on. He was best man at my second wedding (and I dated his now wife between my marriages and while they were pre-maritally briefly broken up

. A couple of years ago my wife was hospitalized near death while she was in Virginia, and I was able to call on him to come to her aid. As she got better he took care of her, even buying clothes for her while she was hospitalized. He likes to ask me how my wife likes the VS underwear he bought her.
I had four very close friends in high school. I lost track of one immediately after graduation. He came back into my life a couple of months ago when he saw my father's obituary in the paper and callled my mother. I will see him in October when I go back there. One I know of in Las Vegas, but we have gone very different ways and I reconnecting would be pointless. One lives in Lincoln, NE and basically blew me off a few years ago when I contacted him. Bye-bye, old friend. I lost another along the way somewhere, too.
On the other hand, there are people on this site who I would like to see, and in fact feel closer to than some of my oldest (ex)friends. I've never met any of these people, but think friendship would ensue. Even with the craven pox-marked pumpion among us.