Flashback Friday: There Are Places (and people) I Remember

This week, I've had the Beatles song, In My Life, looping through my head almost constantly.  It happens when I find someone from the past who was important to me, or whom I really liked or admired. 

This week on facebook (if you're not on facebook, I highly recommend it!) I reconnected unexpectedly with three old friends.  One of them was my first love (if you've read my unfinished autobiography, you know all about him!).  We were 11 or 12, so it was completely innocent, of course (which makes it all the more sweet) but I truly and deeply loved him.  He moved away, then I moved away and we never saw each other again.  I never forgot him through the years, always wondering where he was, how he was doing, if he still looked the same.  I even dreamed about him from time to time (mostly during difficult times.  I guess he symbolized good things to me).  Then suddenly this week on facebook (thank you Ash, for telling me you'd found him...and for knowing how excited I would be!) there he was.  I can't describe how it feels to reconnect with people from a time in my life before the craziness of life set in and changed things, took away the innocence.  Wow.

Then I found my next-door dorm neighbor from DLI (we were studying Russian in the Air Force).  She was hip, cool, outgoing, fun, adventurous, kind.  She took several of us home to L.A. to stay with her parents a couple times.  I loved them instantly and actually cried when it was time to leave (long back story there, let's just say I had a traumatic childhood and leave it at that.  For now.)  Seeing her face again brings back such happy memories.

Then, I got a friend request from a crazy, funny, wild man I know from both DLI and Misawa, Japan.  The only memories possible to have of him are happy, funny ones.  He's hilarious and sometimes over-the-top (in the best of ways).  I'm so amazed to hear all he's done with his time in the Air Force--he's done it all, even spent time in Afghanistan.  He and his sweet and beautiful wife are still together and have two sons.  I love happy stories!  I'm so glad to hear from him!  It sure brought back memories of amazing times. 


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