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post #1 of 12
9/4/06 at 3:09am
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It's past 1:00am here, I've just come home from work, I decide to check my email and lo and behold a message from a high school friend (my best) whom I haven't heard from in 6 years.

I grew up a military brat, I moved around a lot, so I've gotten pretty good about emotionally disconnecting myself from people, but this has me excited in a way that I'm generally not use to being.

Anyone else ever get those calls/messages that just throw your shit off guard?
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post #2 of 12
9/4/06 at 3:10am
Facebook has gotten me in touch with people from 6th grade. It's always a little bit of a "whoa" kind of shock, that people even remember you.
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post #3 of 12
9/4/06 at 3:23am
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The thing that kind of screwed me up was that I've been thinking about my old friends for the past few days. I love my friends now, but I'm making another big move in mid-2007, so I'll be saying goodbye to them as well, and that's what brought on the high school memories.

We were all fucking nuts (at least one of us in the clinical sense) and we had a lot of fun, especially senior year, I'm just feeling really sentimental right about now.
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post #4 of 12
9/4/06 at 3:29am
All my friends moved to college last week, leaving my slacker as behind, living in my parents basement, so I feel ya.
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post #5 of 12
9/4/06 at 4:41am
I had a similar experience this week. I heard something on the news and it reminded me of a concert I went to with my best college friend. I wondered what he was up to and how his family was. The next day there's an email out of the blue from him seeing what I'm up to. He's even coming through town next week and we're having dinner together. It still kind of freaks me out. But in a good way.

Glad you heard from your friend again. That's very cool.
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post #6 of 12
9/4/06 at 5:28am
I can understand your sentimental feelings Jack, it's good to hear from the old crowd.

It's 4 years since I left Blighty to come here & every so often I sit & wonder what everyone back there is up to. There's a few I keep in touch with but it can be a pain in the ass with the 6 hour time difference sometimes. Plus, I'm not the best at keeping in touch anyway!

I only found out a few weeks ago that one of my oldest buddies is about to become a dad (which reminds me, I must call them!) LOL, see what I mean?

It's great when you hear from friends like that, so take my advice. Don't be a lazy sod like me & keep up with them.
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post #7 of 12
9/4/06 at 5:32am
Double post.
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post #8 of 12
9/4/06 at 6:08am
MySpace, for all the hell it catches (most of it rightly so), is really great for finding people you lost touch with. Just recently, I found a friend I haven't seen in 3 or 4 years who's now living in Chicago.

But even better than that, I caught up a girl I that used to live down the street from me when I was growing up. I moved to Florida (from Iowa, of all places) when I was 14, and 12 years later, she found me through MySpace. It's pretty interesting finding out what happened to all of the people from your old neighborhood in an IM conversation with someone you haven't seen in 12+ years.....
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post #9 of 12
9/4/06 at 7:09am
Somehow it turned out that I still keep in touch with all my best childhood friends so these things don't happen often. But everytime I happen to meet people that I haven't seen for over 10 years they always turn out to be a lot fatter, balder than I remember them. Or they have a bitchy wife and a bunch of screaming kids. And in the end, we don't really have anything to talk about.
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post #10 of 12
9/5/06 at 12:54am
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I just found out that one of our close mutual friends has gotten married and is currently a videogame designer, and that another friend has gone further off the deep end than when I last saw him and is currently training for his first professional fight.

The former is definitely living his dream and I'm totally thrilled about that, but I pity the poor fucking bastard that has to share a ring with the former.

I'm honestly shocked that he isn't doing time.
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post #11 of 12
9/5/06 at 3:18am
The weird thing is when you start seeing people you grew up with start to get married off, graduating college, etc. It just doesn't feel like we'd be that age already to see everyone start picking out drapes.

The weirdest find I've unearthed is an good friend of mine from high school whom no one in our circle of friends heard from in four years. She turned back up, married, living in Germany with two kids. Mind=boggled.
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post #12 of 12
9/5/06 at 4:32am
I'm gonna have to throw props to myspace, too.

Friend of mine I used to play Sega Genesis, and later Playstation, contacted me out of nowhere last December. She's up at Purdue now...we've even gotten together for some good old fashioned Sonic 2 racing...and a couple of Mortal Kombat showdowns...
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