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ofearthandstars) wrote2025-07-04 11:57 am
ofearthandstars) wrote2025-07-04 11:57 am
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Friday Five Friend Edition
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- Who is your best friend? Without a doubt, L., though I suppose this answer is a bit of a cheat. But I like knowing that my partner is my best friend, and I'd like to think that whatever changes come about in our lives, things will always manage to remain that way.
- Why did you become friends? We were two awkward ducks in the freshman high school pond. Both unpopular, both entirely too nerdy for our own good, and we shared a lot of common spaces. I have to assume that if someone has seen and stayed with me through my cringey, dramatic, and awkward teen years, they are around for the long haul.
- How did you meet? Shared classes in secondary school, but largely because we both rode a "2nd shift" bus home in the afternoons (school district did not have enough buses, so it would conduct one route then return for the second load, leaving a bunch of young people to squander time in the corners of the halls making terrible jokes.) We were among the students whose parents did not pick them up or provide them cars to drive with.
- Why have you stayed friends? Ooof, well, as friends, we confided a lot in one another, in ways that are more vulnerable than most. So friendship turned to dating, which, inarguably, was terrible during those years, because of immaturity and selfishness. We broke up when we separated for college, but always kept in touch, because even though there were times we'd hurt each other, we still cared for each other. Later we reconnected, as friends, which eventually turned into a marriage, which is a high stakes way of making sure you stay friends.
- How long (realistically) do you think you'll be friends? Oh, I don't know. I can hope for a lifetime, though, can't I?
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2. We became friends because I think we both desperately felt left out and ostracized in grade school and needed to find “our people.”
3. We had both been sent to the OT classroom in 4th grade because we both had seriously awful eye-hand motor skills. Our penmanship was beyond hope. Gym class was miserable. We were socially awkward, especially in larger groups.
4. We have had a lot of common experiences and share a bond. Senior year of high school we went together to Spain to be exchange students for a month. We also hosted students. We were both education majors in college. (Spanish for me; library sciences for her) Her parents divorced when my parents divorced. When her mom died, my dad died. When her refrigerator went out, so did mine! Same with ovens. Unbeknownst to the other, we even bought the same replacement appliances! We also endured a miscarriage at nearest the same time.
5. We will stay friends forever.
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