January 23, 2009. It was a well anticipated evening at a small pub, one that would be a new beginning to friendships that had been forgotten. 3 High School friends gathered after 20 years. I remembered their faces and saw them like photographs in my head. I felt a struggle to recall, to bring back what we shared, the "over the tracks and through the park to McDonald we go" adventures with Kelly and Vicki as we stood in our Jr. Prom Dress, hers in pink, mine in blue. Beyond those memories, there was nothing else to summon up. I kept wondering how we became friends in the first place. As the evening wore on it was easy to see that it really didn’t matter how much we didn’t remember. Something drew us together 20 years ago and that something is still strong in all of us. I believe that if we were all strangers to each other that night, we would have still found a way to become friends. At that moment, I promised to embed that memory in my heart...January 23, 2009. It was a well anticipated evening at a small pub, one that would be a new beginning to friendships that had been forgotten. 3 High School friends gathered after 20 years. I remembered their faces and saw them like photographs in my head. I felt a struggle to recall, to bring back what we shared, the "over the tracks and through the park to McDonald we go" adventures with Kelly and Vicki as we stood in our Jr. Prom Dress, hers in pink, mine in blue. Beyond those memories, there was nothing else to summon up. I kept wondering how we became friends in the first place. As the evening wore on it was easy to see that it really didn’t matter how much we didn’t remember. Something drew us together 20 years ago and that something is still strong in all of us. I believe that if we were all strangers to each other that night, we would have still found a way to become friends. At that moment, I promised to embed that memory in my heart...
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