Grandma Gail

But, um,

I know where she is, and once a year we exchange birthday wishes.

You know, what happens very often, and it's not a regret because we were good friends growing up, you get married, you have children, you have different, she never married, she didn't have any children.

So there was very little commonality that we had except for when we went to school.

So, you know, you have to, you get a new friend, you get a friend that you've shared experiences with that are more relevant to you at the time and to your different times of life.

So I do know, you know, it's hard.

It's very, you really don't have that much to say about, except reminisce about when you were 14, 15, 16, 17 years old, which was very short part of

your life by the time you're in your 80s.

So, you know, if you're able to keep up with them, and you have common interests, that's great.

I have not.

And, you know, that's just the way it did work out.

Yeah, about it, but I'm not sad about it either.

Reminiscing about what you did in high school.

I mean, that's basically your storyline because you don't know anything else.

They haven't gone forward with you into where you are in your life now.

But they're still in the beginning.

So we don't know how long those relationships will last.

Sometimes your best friends are your, you know, are the ones that you had when you were in preschool and you were able to keep that because you lived in the same city and weren't kept up with them.

uh friends parents those are your friends that you kind of have the larger time of your life but that's so concerning you just drop all of your friends from the first 30 years of your life drop them and if you see them again you can always have dinner or catch up or have lunch but the problem is you don't have the same um interests anymore most people don't

go make friendships out of their interests, what they're doing during your life.