Erin and I were besties from fifth through seventh grade. We both lived in Beale Air Force Base and we would wander around the fields and climb trees. She was also the first amongst my girlfriends to have a boyfriend. Also, she had a golden retriever named Sandi that I adored very much.
This is why I still keep my Myspace and Facebook pages.
I now have more than 60 Facebook friends from my elementary, middle and high school days. It’s completely bizarre (and very interesting) to catch up with people who I haven’t seen in 25 years (I’m 40). My first business partner from a morning newspaper route, friends that were “patrols” with me on the same neighborhood corner near our elementarty school, a few guys from those early fights after school and later, from “partying” for the first time… and so much more. Everything that was so big then is like reading a book about someone else now. I barely remember some of it, yet I have retained vivid details of events that some of them swear they don’t recall happening at all.
What a long, strange trip it’s been.
