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> > I hope those of you who are still in school will enjoy your friends now. They might just disappear sometime soon.
> > Howard
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> And then you learn that sometimes they disappear in a way very different from what you expected. I lost my best friend last night. He's alive and well. He just doesn't want to talk to me anymore.
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> I'm glad you had a good time with your friends, Howard. I hope that in another fifty years I'll still have friends from high school and college, and as good of an outlook on life as you do. I just won't have the friends I expected to have.
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> Lynette

It's funny how friends work. When I was in high school I thought I knew for sure who I'd stay in touch with and who would slip away. It seems I was pretty wrong about it, though. I also thought that my college friends would be the long-lasting ones- turns out Darien's the only one I even know anymore. Looking back, though, it certainly is neat to see who your true friends really are.

~Mina "looking forward to my fist high school reunion" moon