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Originally Posted by beevly
Sometimes it's not so easy. When you lose the things you had in common, you may find that conversation turns awkward. Sooner or later you run out of "remember when" stories, especially if you were only 10 or 11 at the time. . . . YMMV.
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With the help of a forum member, I located the fellow who was my best friend from age 12 up into my 30s. He lives in Clearwater, FL, now, having bugged out from the Gulf Coast after Katrina. He and I double-dated, we went to movies, we got into "Star Trek" fandom together, we saw each other through our first marriages and then into his second (and me out of my second). But since then . . .
1) His wife doesn't like me, and I have nothing in common with her. She's pleasant enough, but --
2) She's gotten him into religion in a big way. In her e-mail, she says that the two of them sang and prayed while waiting for Katrina to hit the Gulf Coast of Mississippi, instead of jumping in the car and hightailing it
out of there. I don't understand that mindset. And of course they have kids (college age now), which means they live in another universe from me anyhow.
I can call and chat, but I don't know how a visit would go. If his family still lives here, and they come to visit, I'll be glad to get together for a while. But there's no guarantee it won't be a disaster.
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