In high school I
sometimes hung out with Mary and her friends at their table in the cafeteria.
They were a year ahead of me. I think that she was a part of the Peer Club that
would look after under classmates. They all seemed nice. I just wish that I
hadn’t been so afraid to talk to them. I only did so a little.
Mary invited me to
her graduation party where I found out that she also had a crush on Don
Mattingly. Someone gave her an 8x10 photo of him as a gift. It would have been
good if I had gotten to know her and the other girls better.
She is one of my
Facebook friends as are some of my other former friends and classmates. I don’t
really associate with any of them on that site though. I have sent them
birthday wishes occasionally. I’m not that interested in social networking that
way or even in person. I’m a very strange girl.
A tiny part of me
disagrees with this and was sort of hoping that I could make a connection with
some of the girls that I’ve met at DD concerts and events. Of course, I don’t
feel as if this could ever truly happen. I have done so a little bit with a
couple of them but even this feels awkward to me.
Tracey and I cut
classes one afternoon to go down the shore – Asbury Park. She borrowed her sister’s car, a Fiero, for
this. That’s the only time that I’ve ever done something bad like that during
my school days. I only got detention twice and the one time it was the whole
class in high school. I can’t remember why this happened to me in the 5th
grade.
Tracey was a big
Springsteen fan. I’m pretty sure she had a crush on him. We didn’t really hang
out that much and it was mainly at school. She was nice; I wish that we could
have had a closer friendship but I guess that my social anxiety was partially
to blame for this.
Julia and I went to
the Westfield Theater to see The
Manhattan Project but I don’t really remember anything about that movie.
Mom took the 2 of us and Mike to Woodbridge Mall. Julia ran up the down
escalator there. Mom bought her a nice pair of jeans that day.
She rode her bike
over to our house one day. We drove her home. I only remember being at her host
families house once or twice; I think that it was in Roselle.
We mostly only hung
out together in school though and she seemed closer to a few other girls in our
class. I am glad that we were friends and not just because I got the chance to
go to Germany and stay with her family. I would have never been able to afford
anything but what I had to pay for- the airline ticket and souvenirs-otherwise.
My 2- 3 year friendship
in the late 90s with Lynn was nice; it’s a shame that we drifted apart. We had
sent holiday cards to each other for a few years after that. We had a lot of
fun going to garage sales and flea markets.
We sometimes did arts and crafts like decoupage. She liked stuffed
animals and stickers too. I gave her my
small Friend Care Bear.
We went to the
Flemington Outlet Center with a couple of friends of hers. Matt and I went to
her birthday party. I gave her a Gund brand doggie which she loved. She had a
pet ferret but I don’t remember its name.
Gina and Roy were
our family friends. They used to live somewhere in North Jersey before moving
to a house across the street from us.
Our parents went
with them to a mall in that area one day in 1976. That is when they bought our
Shetland sheepdog pup Rusty from a pet store there. They had an adorable doggie
named Barky. I am pretty sure that it was part Border collie.
Mom said that Roy and
Gina saw Grease in the movie theater
at least 10 times. I liked the big scrapbook of 8x10s of stars that they had in
the attic room of their nice house. I wish that I could remember who was in
this book. In the early 90s, Mike and I started collecting photos of our
favorite stars too.
Roy and Dad worked
in GM. They used to drive there together. Early one morning (it was still
dark), Roy was hit and killed by a car when crossing the street to get to our
apartment. This was very upsetting. That was in 1980 or 1981, I think.
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