This is a tribute to past best friends and my longing to have a new one.
A post about best friends has to begin with my sister. Although we are complete opposites in personality (she's more outgoing and adventurous than I am), we are close enough in age that we could've been twins. We had a lot of the same teachers and/or the same classes. We shared a bedroom for many years and had games we would play (when we were supposed to be sleeping) a lot which were based on giving and guessing clues about mutual friends and classmates. Another incident I remember from that time is the day that we got fed up with each other's habits and used tape to make a line on the floor to mark our own space. Today we live a thousand miles apart but keep in touch by email and the occasional phone call and rare visit. Neighborhood playmates I remember are Maggie, Cathy and Harolyn and of course my siblings.
The next bff I remember I'll call RRR. We were classmates in grade school. We shared classtime as well as lunch and recess. My most endearing memory from this time is a day we decided to trade lunches. I don't remember what his lunch was but mine was a braunschweiger sandwich. RRR told me it smelled like dead fish. After that I didn't eat braunschweiger again until recently. Eventually our families both moved and lost touch. Until a few years ago when I found RRR's sister on classmates. She has my dream job-a librarian, lives in Baltimore and we keep
in touch thru facebook. ... to be continued.
