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Yes, I live in my old home town now and many of my elementary classmates also live here. I see one friend from first grade every week or so and keep in touch with many others. This is even more true for high school classmates, whom I may not see weekly but perhaps every month or so. Others check in when they are in town, and/or keep in touch via email.
I do, my best friend and I met at age 12. The irony is she hated me for most of 7th grade and was going to beat me up on the last day of school (my plan was to cut, I can't fight and she was tough lol). Then one day we had study hall in the cafeteria and we ended up at a table together. She challenged me to a game of knuckles, of course beat me handily and painfully, but then after that we just became instant best friends and were inseparable from that day on. That's the great thing about being a kid that I wish we could take into adulthood...in any case, I did not have many friends and I don't know how I would have made it thru junior high and high school without her.
She lives in Florida now (we are now 55 years old, yikes!) and we only see each other once a year or so when she brings her kids up or I go down there, and weeks can go by where life gets in the way and we don't talk, but the bond remains. She's the only person in my life who knows every single awful thing I've ever done, all my secrets, and loves me anyway, and vice versa.
My oldest friends are two people I knew in junior high. Back then, we were just classmates, not friends. In both cases we reconnected years later, and bonded over shared history, which deepened into the genuine friendships we share today. I had a college friend with whom I remained friends for 25 years, and I expected that we would be two old ladies together, but we had a mostly inexplicable falling out about six years ago, and haven't spoken since. My longest continuous friendships are with people I met at work in the mid-'90s.
I have been friends with someone since we were 11. We are now 44. We met in 6th grade and kept in contact even though I moved and went to a different school. We have been in each others weddings and now have children that play together. She only lives 10 minutes away.
I had dinner this week with my best friend from elementary school, we have lived several states apart for many years. I spoke with my best friend from high school less than a week ago, we also live far from each other. I've made many friends since my youth, but I've never lost touch with the originals.
I have one.... we met in preschool... age 4. Had some real ups and downs in our friendship over the years, including common boyfriends that caused some rifts for awhile, but we are still friends now... we are over 50 now.
The first friend I ever had was when my family moved to the suburbs when I was in 1st grade (I didn't go to kindergarten so didn't meet others my age). We are still the best of friend today and it's been 53 years.
My husband on the other hand is still close to a large group of guys who went to Catholic school together 1st grade through high school. We're all over the US and the wives get along well too. Once everyone married, for many years it was just Christmas cards and the occasional reunion, or coincidental overlapped hometown visits; now that we're at that age where most if our kids are adults we're making an effort to actually get together somewhat regularly. Going on a cruise next month - there will be 14 of us!
The only one that went back to childhood died of ALS a decade ago. I have a summer house in my home and plan to retire there. I have acquaintances I grew up with but not friends.
I have quite a few friends who go back many decades. We have a lot more in common than the people I grew up with. I went to my 40th high school reunion two summers ago. The people in all my accelerated classes had dispersed around the country following their careers just like me. I don’t have much in common with the people who stuck around town.
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