Your school best friend and where are they at now?

Thanks Christine...she died three months after my youngest son was born. I had talked with her the day before she died and we had made plans to get together so that our boys could have a play date. She was only 30 and left two young sons.

I have kept up with their progress and both her boys have graduated high school and are in college now. Her husband did a fine job in raising those boys. Her mom is my godmom and I see her regularly, although she is in the beginning stages of alzheimers.

Tammy
 
The last best friend I had in high school is STILL my dearest, closest friend today! We have been friends for over 25 years and have been extremely close for about 17 of them!

I had other best friends through my school days but those relationships all disintigrated for one reason or another.

I was not fond of many people I went to school with. I only ever had a few friends at one time...I was not a "clique" type person and I never "fit" into any of those groups either.

I have gone to my 5 and 10 year reunion out of curiosity and spent the whole night talking to the people I still see today...:)
 
I haven't seen my best friend from HS for about 15 years. We definitely have moved in different directions: she's still living in our home town, got married almost right out of HS, had 5 (I think!--I just saw the first 2--kids, and worked as a baker in a grocery store). I went on to college and kept going through grad school. I don't know if we'd have much to talk about nowdays.
 
My two best friends from high school I know one is a pre-school teacher, and we still call each other on the weekends and talk.

The other one, I have no idea after she got married she decided to move to California as Disney Land offered her a job as on of these people you tell them how many people you have with you and they tell you how much it is to get into the park for the day. I personally thought this was dumb to make her husband give up a job that was supporting them both, and they both ended up being entrance fee cashers at $8 an hour. Granted I never said that, but I'm sure she sensed it when she kept complaining about having to borrow money from her parents to keep afloat almost every month. And I didn't feel too sorry for her. Then she wanted to have a baby on top of the money trouble and that’s the last I heard from her.

Kit
 
Mine moved to Vegas, we haven't spoken in almost 2 years now. We're terrible about keeping in touch. We pretty much went separate ways our senior year in high school. She got married and had a baby before we graduated, and I wasn't even in her wedding!! Since then, we take turns tracking each other down every few years. I should go to Vegas soon:) Wow...I just realized her daughter is 15 years old now!
Brandi


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My best friend is from kindergarten and that was 36 years ago! We have been best friends ever since. Through different colleges, states, you name it. Now we are both 40 (ugh.... it can't really be!) and I am married with kids living in a suburb close to where we grew up and she is single living in the woods about 5 hours from here. Our lives have gone in completetly different directions and we have some of the same interests still but many that aren't the same (for example she NEVER works out and hates to sweat!) but through it all we are still best of buds. I am so lucky.

Nancy
 
Oh I have a great story--I lost touch w/my best friend after I went off to grad school, since it was so far away. I ended up staying in VA for 7 years.

I grew up in south Jersey, & when I moved back to NJ I moved to the northern part of the state, about 2 hours away. I started searching for my friend. Finally coughed up the $10 for an internet search & came back with 5 addresses in south NJ. I sent letters off to all of them.

A week later I got an email from her. Turns out one of my letters went to her sister's house, she forwarded it to Kathleen, who happens to live 15 minutes from me! After 10 years we picked up right where we left off. We're both still single, we haven't changed hardly at all (meaning we're about the same weight & size, our faces show we've been around the block a few times LOL), we still get along fabulously. She's my roomie down the shore this summer. And next summer for that matter, & the summer after that.........:)
 
I have two best friends and my husband teases me cause they are very much alike physically and have very similiar personalities. He thinks I cloned them or something. They both live on the East coast)RI and VA, and now here I am in Arizona. My RI friend I have known since college...yikes 23 years ago and my other best friend oddly enough was born the same year I met the other one....kinda wierd, huh?? I have known my Va best freind for about 6 years now, I hired her to work in my store in Fredericksburg. I love them both...and I don't talk to them half as often as I should, but whenver we do it is like not even a day has passed by between us. I couldn't get through my life without them!!
 
My best friend since high school lives 5 hours from me but we talk or email 2-3 times a week. We try to see each other at least a couple of times a year. We decided as sophmores in high school that everyone needs someone who is just for them and decided to be that person for each other. We have had one fight in 17 years. It is an amazing gift to have someone in your life in whose eyes you can recapture your youth. Our husbands (both named Ed) threaten to wear ear plugs when we are together because of all high pitched laughter. Seperately we are pretty sedate but when together there is always some fun "trouble".

We recently went on a girls weekends for our 30+ birthday and surprised our husbands by returning with tattoos.

We promised to get another one for our 50th!!

I am firm believer that everyone needs a best friend.
 
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