"Do you think we'll ever lose touch with each other?" "No. I say no because I think we've built such a strong connection, it's like, it's almost unbreakable." Anyone who is willing to listen to me talk about it has undoubtedly heard about my friendship with G and how important my role as a mentor has been to me. What I haven't shared as widely yet, is that late last year I grappled with the decision to finish my mentorship term with Reach and Rise, and in February ended my formal participation in the program. My original commitment to was to spend time with G for 1-3 hours each week for one year. At the outset we had established some goals together with her father and the program coordinator at the Y. Our goals were to help her build confidence, expose her to new experiences, and get her through a difficult loss she had recently experienced. G and I spent two years together in the program. We seldom, if ever, explicitly referred back to...