Christmas Cards
In the next seven years, the families only communicated through annual Christmas cards. Matt and Laura’s development was tracked through these cards, but there wasn’t anything that was worth maintaining the friendship. They never forgot about their friendship, but they didn’t place too much thought into their past.
Out of Sight and Out of Mind
The saying was true for both Matt and Laura. Not being in each other’s sight led to the other being out of mind. They slowly started losing interest in what their lives looked like on the Christmas cards as the years went by.