Class of 1986

After 25 years Mike and I chose to attend a high school reunion ~ his.  They were honoring Cliff Radie, his wrestling coach, so Mike couldn't NOT go.  I would not choose to go back to high school.  It was four years of growing and learning and I really don't need to go back there.  I am fb friends with the two people I still talk to (would be three if Judy would be on fb!) ~ but I really don't care to go back.  Mike feels basically the same way, but being that his family is still in Newbury and he graduated with family, he knows more of those people.  It was like a family reunion ~ and I was reminded of how strange Mike's life was growing up ~   In his graduating class (120+ total) are: his ex-step-sister, his step-aunt, and his step-mother's sister's brother-in-law.  Yep.  That's not so easy to follow, I know.  But it's all true.  He even went to prom with his step-aunt ~ before she was his step-aunt.
It was good to meet Tina, his ex-step-sister.  She pretty much "saved" Mike during the "evil-step-mother" years, and it was good to get to know her a little bit.
I thought that a reunion would bring back more memories of high school ~ thoughts and reflections about where I've gotten to in my life.  Maybe I didn't experience any such moment because it wasn't my reunion ~ but it was just a get together of people, some I knew, some I didn't.  We ate and drank and had a nice evening.  1986.  Seems like a life time ago ~ probably because it is.