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Dinger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-02-06 01:11 AM
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Anybody Here Still Keep In Touch with High School Friends?
Not me, but I did for several years after I graduated ('78)
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Katherine Brengle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-02-06 01:12 AM
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1. A couple...
but not on a consistent basis.

And I only graduated 6 years ago (wow, right after I wrote that, I started to feel old, lol)...
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Hardrada Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-02-06 02:34 AM
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12. One or two.
I actually am in closer touch with my younger brother's buddies since they used to hang around the house a lot!
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bbernardini Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-02-06 01:13 AM
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2. Absolutely. (Well, one, anyway.)
I talk regularly (through the miracle of Yahoo Messenger) with my bestest friend from high school (who was also the best man at my wedding). The others aren't particularly good about responding to e-mails. (Understandable, since one has at least two kids, and the other is a neurologist.)
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YouthInAsia Donating Member (806 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-02-06 01:13 AM
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3. not a chance.
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Suich Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-02-06 02:25 AM
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9. Me, too!
Graduated '61 from an all girls Catholic high school.
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ZombieNixon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-02-06 01:17 AM
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4. Oh, yeah!
(But, then, I am a first year college student!) :P
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Nicole Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-02-06 01:35 AM
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5. Yes, I'm still close to 6 of them
We've been through marriages, divorces, kids, grandkids & deaths together. We're closer now than when we were in high school 30 years ago.

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LynzM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-02-06 01:42 AM
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6. Yup, a few
A couple that I'm still good friends with, who live nearby, and a couple others I chat with online and via email, occasionally. But then I'm only class of '98 :P
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fishwax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-02-06 02:12 AM
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7. i still see 2 out of my 3 closest high school friends
i'm married to one (:D) and still talk to/email/occasionally see in person another. The third died of cancer in his early 20s, though.

But I had several other good HS friends that I have lost touch with almost completely, and the two aforementioned are the only two i'm likely to see or talk to in any given year ...
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Kathleen04 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-02-06 02:24 AM
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8. Yep
I'm only almost two years out though.
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Ava Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-02-06 02:25 AM
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10. i left school in the 8th grade
to start homeschooling. i have a few friends i have kept in touch with but mostly i was glad to rid of them. :shrug:
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Robeson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-02-06 02:27 AM
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11. One. My best friend. But I also knew him before high school...
...we go back to the 7th grade. Other than him, no, no one from high school.
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mykpart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-02-06 04:24 AM
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13. Well, I'm married to one of them,
so I have to keep in touch with him. And I have one friend who lives in another state who keeps in touch by email. Other than that, I have grown and changed since high school, where I was a real geek, and I don't want to see people who made me feel like less than nothing.
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Ariana Celeste Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-02-06 04:28 AM
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14. yeah, several
I'm 20. :).

Sometimes I can't make up my mind on whether it's good or bad that I still talk to them. ;)
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hfojvt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-02-06 04:30 AM
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15. I might
if I actually had high school friends.
I had some friends in different grades, but we got other friends and then some of my friends moved long before high school and so on. The only friends I needed were my brother and sister anyway, and I keep in touch with them.
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fleabert Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-02-06 04:56 AM
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16. not till now...myspace and classmates.
I think it's a time when those of my age are looking to either confirm or deny who they were in HS. It's weird to rehash memories and find out they are different or the same as you remember them...
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samplegirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-02-06 08:12 AM
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17. no
but its always nice when we run into each other and catch up on each others lives.
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Ohio Joe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-02-06 09:29 AM
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18. Yes, with one
We have been friends since kindergarten and still talk regularly, at least twice a week.
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XNASA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-02-06 09:32 AM
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19. Hight school? I'm still close to about 12 friends from grade school.
And we all graduated from high school around '75. How 'bout dat?
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flamingyouth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-02-06 12:14 PM
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20. A couple.
I'm having my 20th reunion this year and I'm planning on going (mostly out of morbid curiosity) but also to reconnect with a couple of other people I haven't seen in a few years.
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Nikia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-02-06 12:17 PM
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21. No because I live far away
I made it a point to stop seeing them after going to their graduation parties. I was going to college a few states away. I knew that I wouldn't be seeing them anymore. I had to grow some emotional distance. If I had gone to school nearby or planned on returning, things would have been different.
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catmandu57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-02-06 12:48 PM
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22. I reconnected with a high school friend
about four years ago, we see each other a couple of times a year, but that's about all.
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Fox Mulder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-02-06 12:50 PM
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23. It's been about six years since I graduated high school...
and I haven't talked to my best friend from high school in the last two or three years.

The only friends I stay in touch with are my friends from work. I don't even keep in touch with my friends from college and I've been out of college for only four or so months.

Sad, eh?

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bigwillq Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-02-06 02:12 PM
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24. Yes
Quite a few.


It's only been 10 years. We still hang out, party, run into each other at the bars.
I got along with basically everyone in my class. We only had like 130 students in my graduating class.
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