Nation gripped with anticipation for return of those we hold closest

Elevating today's gathering will be the presence of a dear pal, one who has been laid low since suffering a stroke a couple of years back.

- ROY CURTIS

This will be the first day all of us will have been together since that day.

Rehabilitation hasn't been easy, but the metal of his optimism declined to melt down.

Many of us will well up in that moment Glenn enters the room. That rush of emotions can be explained in an observation from the actor, Jon Tenney.

"When you get together with childhood friends there's an intimacy that you instantly have because you share something really profound in your past.

"There's a shortcut to emotional intimacy if you share a past."

It is no surprise to learn that Tenney's mother is a psychologist. The understanding of the human psyche has been passed on to her son.