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fishnbanjo

Lifer
Feb 27, 2013
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I smoked my first pipe 2 years before this photo was taken, This weekend, Friday night and most of Saturday, is my 50th Reunion. I had planned on attending but the last 9 months had my brain writing promises my body isn’t able to keep. Hard to believe I once was this naive kid.

banjo
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weezell

Lifer
Oct 12, 2011
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49,171
At that age you know you are indestructible. Then old man time creeps up on us. I know the feeling only to well...

 

warren

Lifer
Sep 13, 2013
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Foothills of the Chugach Range, AK
Look to your health enjoy today and, hopefully many tomorrows.
From my perspective I don't think you've missed anything. I've never done a reunion. I was told, my brother attended his 50th, that is was amazing how the personalities hadn't changed. The girls who were the organizers in high school were still the peppy organizers. A couple of jocks even wore letter jackets. Cheerleaders were still perky. Everyone was definitely older, some carried that well. Others? Not so well. It all just sounded well, sad.
My old high school friends were all hockey players, we played together and against each other well into our 40's. The old flames? I prefer to be able to conjure up memories of teenage lassies rather than the faces of grandmothers, nice as they may still be. And, being a small town, I arrested more than a couple of high school peers. If I go to a reunion a fist fight might break out. Well, at our age, more like a slap fight and then a wrestling match until we fall asleep on the gym floor. Kinda like the prom.

 

winton

Lifer
Oct 20, 2010
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I considered going to my college's 30 year reunion, recently. Plane, car rental, hotel. . . . Decided to stay home.

 

anantaandroscoggin

Part of the Furniture Now
Sep 9, 2017
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Greene, Maine, USA
Class of '71 here. Never have been tempted to do the high-school reunion thing. There's nobody I care to see again, and I rather doubt that they've missed me at all, all these years.

 

fishnbanjo

Lifer
Feb 27, 2013
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Anthony,

I was very shy and yes, there were some young ladies that tried to latch onto me (went to 3 proms and had to bow out of a 4th) but that shy naive kid always backed off, I will say that once I joined the Navy that kid didn’t exist much longer,

banjo

 

bnichols23

Lifer
Mar 13, 2018
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SC Piedmont
KWYM on those reunions. I did my 40th back I '10; don't know if I'll do the 50th I '20 or not. My wife's 50th is next year, & she wants to do that since she missed her 40th due to hip surgery. Like Warren said, sometimes it's just sad to see the effect bookoo decades of bad roads can have on you..... I

 

mso489

Lifer
Feb 21, 2013
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Well, I never got to any high school reunions; it was a huge class, 999, and the people who stayed in the area weren't the people I was close to, though I have always been fascinated by the newsletter, the short updates on people, and writing my own entries. A few of the people I remember, though I wasn't close to any of those. fish', maybe you could write a note mentioning health but mostly about your interesting and active life, and send it along for reading by one of the organizers. I think your presence in that way would be appreciated. Not that you need coaching, but you could remember some of the doings from school days, mention names of classmates, and let your presence be felt. I like to think that, despite my disconnect with the reunion scene, I have kept the group aware of my activities. You were a good looking kid, fish'. I enjoyed being that age, but it is full of anxiety and mistakes. Sometimes I felt that high school was mostly learning about what I couldn't do; at the time, whatever abilities I had seemed pretty marginalized. But I think most feel that along the way.

 

mso489

Lifer
Feb 21, 2013
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A high school buddy and I did photography and film, and took a hitchhiking tour to Michigan and stayed on my old family farm. I'm still in touch with him in retirement with his wife in Hawaii. It's nice to keep in touch with your old friends. A good friend in college is retired in Lexington, Ky., and we keep in touch.

 

mso489

Lifer
Feb 21, 2013
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And my college classmate who I met when we were 19 ... after active lives, and in our sixties, we reunited and got married! So schoolmates are sometimes more. Now that was a reunion!

 

fishnbanjo

Lifer
Feb 27, 2013
3,030
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The only thing I feel badly about is not visiting with my best man, over 44 years and 2 states away ago, yes we’ve kept in touch, I forced him to our 25th and he wrote saying he couldn’t wait to sit and talk face to face at our 50th.

banjo

 

bnichols23

Lifer
Mar 13, 2018
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SC Piedmont
Yeah, fully concur, piper. Tom did it right!
Banjo, a thought. You could tell them you're a retired medical & technology specialist & that you have a worldwide fanclub who hang on your every word & wish they lived where you do. I'm sure any of us here would be glad to validate!

 
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