Cut to 42 years later and a wonderful site called Classmates.com which helps people find their school chums, but make you pay for the privilege of actually reading messages sent to them by other members. So this Shelly pays the $15 fee for a 3-month membership and messages are read, emails exchanged, and a lunch meeting arranged because, lo and behold, both Shellys still live in NYC.
And today was the lunch, and it was good. We ate at whatever Pizzeria Uno calls itself now and I had sirloin tips with rice and Shelly had a deep dish pizza and we talked and 42 years melted away as we tried to catch up, which isn't easy when you're covering 42 years in 90 minutes. Unlike when I had a reunion with my best friend in high school, after 25 years of no contact but a lot of emotional baggage, this was effortless and comfortable. We still have things in common. We stimulated each others memories. We're gonna do it again. And we both agreed that we haven't changed much. Sure, we look older, but the same pretty much. And how cool is that?
Gonna cross post this in a few of my blogs. Just because.
Feeling:
~~~o0o~~~
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My time has been shorter, but I found my best friend from 6th grade, whom I hadn't spoken to since I was ten, so it had been 20 years, and we were shocked to see how similar we are now, even growing up and living half a country away. It's strange sometimes how those you were drawn to as a child is still who you're drawn to as an adult. For me, even now, it made me feel less strange and out of place. YAY for the Shellys!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Puglet. The irony is that I have more in common with Shelly than with my best friend in high school and college. That friend and I had a reunion after not seeing each other for 25 years and it wasn't as much fun as this was.
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