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44. Hope you can find a way to go.

Reply to 3Hotdogs (Original post)

Fri Feb 14, 2020, 04:25 AM

Feb 2020

The focus will not be on you, but you can focus on all the stories of people who shared that time of your life so many years ago.
Too late tonight to expand, but let the thought simmer in your head for awhile.
Our time here is short.

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I had a kind'a upsetting day. [View all] 3Hotdogs Feb 2020 OP

Hey, man.... Sogo Feb 2020 #1

Matt Drudge graduated in the bottom 5% of his class and even failed his own Bar Mitzvah! TheBlackAdder Feb 2020 #5

LOL! lunatica Feb 2020 #15

Bottom of the class sometimes is the best place to be. mercuryblues Feb 2020 #25

10 years later, May, 1970, I was graduated from Kean U in Union, N.J. 3Hotdogs Feb 2020 #27

I went to three high schools Skittles Feb 2020 #2

I changed schools 13 times. lunatica Feb 2020 #18

I went to a few schools in England Skittles Feb 2020 #20

You definitely get an education in British schools! lunatica Feb 2020 #21

yes Skittles Feb 2020 #22

Sounds a lot like 2naSalit Feb 2020 #37

You gotta admit though lunatica Feb 2020 #38

I was always bullied whixh made me focus on 2naSalit Feb 2020 #39

That's pretty universal for school age children. lunatica Feb 2020 #42

yes Skittles Feb 2020 #43

Did you attend English schools? Or American schools in England for service members' kids? JustABozoOnThisBus Feb 2020 #24

Yes, there are. Listening to other people yak about their gran.... 3Hotdogs Feb 2020 #28

I get it. Didn't go to my 50th because most of them are still ignorant white wingers. Hoyt Feb 2020 #3

That's really some shit about the K and Q. 3Hotdogs Feb 2020 #32

I hope you feel better now madaboutharry Feb 2020 #4

I feel better. Still sad about the list of the dead. Also, my own mortality comes to the fore. 3Hotdogs Feb 2020 #33

"That, I learned one night in a hotel room in the Poconos" pamela Feb 2020 #6

This is a wonderful essay. I identify and I think it would resonate with many people. emmaverybo Feb 2020 #7

I'm 73 next month and went to 50th reunion 5 years ago. vlyons Feb 2020 #8

++++++111111111111 KPN Feb 2020 #10

nice Kali Feb 2020 #11

I wish I wasn't out of hearts. I'd give you one. nolabear Feb 2020 #17

I apply your suggestion to weddings, funerals and stuff I attend. 3Hotdogs Feb 2020 #35

Thank you for sharing that story with us. Marie Marie Feb 2020 #9

Something to enjoy. Corgigal Feb 2020 #12

I enjoyed your essay very much. Collimator Feb 2020 #13

Hell! Just stay home and write a book lunatica Feb 2020 #14

I'm sorry you had an upsetting day...but my, what a superb essay! I hope you will post more. diva77 Feb 2020 #16

I did not go to my 50th reunion. FuzzyRabbit Feb 2020 #19

Sounds like you don't want to go - so don't. patricia92243 Feb 2020 #23

HS sucked TruckFump Feb 2020 #26

As I tell my kids by the time you're 22 you don't even remember much about high school Buckeyeblue Feb 2020 #29

Whoa, your high school reunion includes a deceased list Zing Zing Zingbah Feb 2020 #30

About that "best years of your life" idea Maeve Feb 2020 #31

-- never went on facebook 3Hotdogs Feb 2020 #40

I went to mine..... MyOwnPeace Feb 2020 #34

Hated high school years... N_E_1 for Tennis Feb 2020 #36

Wow. That's some statement. 3Hotdogs Feb 2020 #41

Hope you can find a way to go. No Vested Interest Feb 2020 #44