That is wonderful AMN! You are very lucky!
I seem to have only held onto friends from college. I have 3 that are my greatest friends. We all got together last summer for the first time in 7 years, at least all 4 of us at one time. We had the best weekend! It really is like something I read out of a book. We went to Martha's Vineyard, where one of them lives, and within 1 hr of all of us getting there we were having wine, crying, laughing and crying some more. The stories, I'm telling you, we could make a movie out of it.
True friends are a blessing!