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something unpredictable

yet oh so right...

i have been blessed with many incredible friends through the years. they have all left a mark on my life in one way or another. yesterday, (i tried to get this up yesterday - technical difficulties) was one of my oldest best friends birthday. we met in jr. high and hit it off. oh the things we did - we made up dances to livin on a prayer, anything paula or tiffany or debbie gibson, wore matching clothes. and pretended to be baby on dirty dancing. we even had the bff necklace that was broken in 2.....come on how many others out there had those!

we had a blast - then she moved.....not too far but far enough that over time we lost touch. from time to time we would get an address for the other and connect very briefly. i always remembered her birthday - june 17. it is the same date as mine - just 5 months later. i guess some things just never fade from my mind.

then came facebook - and she appeared there! while i still haven't talked to her face to face since we were 17, i feel like she is still a friend. odd, we may have nothing in common anymore, but she was so much a part of who i was and currently am that i still feel a bond. she was recently married and is expecting a baby in the fall.......i'm hoping that at some point we can connect.


so once i found her - i started hunting for other long lost best friends - in this picture you will see several i've reconnected with and a few that have always stayed connected. but in this picture is the best friend from high school years.....boy, do we have stories!!!! so many i don't even know where to begin. but i laugh and laugh because something will remind me of some wild adventure we once had. i recently found her on facebook as well....i have loved seeing how my friends have changed and how they've stayed the same.
i miss my old friends. partly because of that time of life; partly because we really had a blast. i loved hanging out with my friends - we just had fun. i miss the good old days sometimes!
although, it seems like a lifetime ago, these friends have left an imprint on my life. and frankly, i needed them during those times - just like i've been blessed with amazing friends, some old some new, for this season of my life.
most of my friendships have been unpredictable - most of the time i didn't like the person at first, only to find out that they were truly my best friend. music is something that always takes me to a place in time.....i was running the other day and listening to my ipod. when this song came on i couldn't help but think back through all of my friendships.....how they really were and are the time of my life.
so thanks to all my friends, old, new, past, present......you definitely are a part of me
and when something unpredictable that at the end is right - you've had the time of your life



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