My first ever BFF
Jul. 23rd, 2012 12:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susandennisI just got an email from my best friend from 1st (through 7th) grade. She moved away at the end of 7th grade and I never saw her again and here now more than 40 years later I get a 'Do you remember me? email.
I don't make or keep friends easily. I've had some good ones in my life and some best ones but not many and I tend to lose them one way or another.
And I don't 'do' facebook. And I don't use the name I grew up with. Package all that up and it does not bode well for getting found and/or contacted by long lost anybodies.
But, Linda cracked the code. What a delight.
She had a creek behind her house and we made clay bowls out of the mud from it. She used Noxema on her hands constantly and she had the softest hands I'd ever felt then or now. Her mother was beautiful. On cold days our mothers made us wear corduroy leggings under our dresses to walk to school and they were horrid. We would hide them under Linda's front porch on the way to school and pick them up from there after.
Her family moved her away at the end of 7th grade and I cried for a month. I had never been abandoned before and it was the most painful thing that had ever happened to me in all of my 13 years.
I never heard from or about her ever again until today. Amazing. I love the internet.
I don't make or keep friends easily. I've had some good ones in my life and some best ones but not many and I tend to lose them one way or another.
And I don't 'do' facebook. And I don't use the name I grew up with. Package all that up and it does not bode well for getting found and/or contacted by long lost anybodies.
But, Linda cracked the code. What a delight.
She had a creek behind her house and we made clay bowls out of the mud from it. She used Noxema on her hands constantly and she had the softest hands I'd ever felt then or now. Her mother was beautiful. On cold days our mothers made us wear corduroy leggings under our dresses to walk to school and they were horrid. We would hide them under Linda's front porch on the way to school and pick them up from there after.
Her family moved her away at the end of 7th grade and I cried for a month. I had never been abandoned before and it was the most painful thing that had ever happened to me in all of my 13 years.
I never heard from or about her ever again until today. Amazing. I love the internet.
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Date: 2012-07-23 11:06 pm (UTC)I've gotten a semi-public presence online, but I don't know that many people in person. I occasionally look up the one good friend I had way back in the day outside of school but all I find is a few breadcrumbs that point he's gone off in a totally different direction that I can barely fathom, much less relate with him to. Meh. :\
Most people who did know me could probably say the same about me, going off into the world of games and computers. heh
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Date: 2012-07-24 12:26 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-07-24 01:24 am (UTC)If any of my old BFFs from childhood contacted me, I would feel extremely awkward -- I always kinda hope they never do.