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Smed - 2006-06-25 17:49:49
At our 20th, we were trying to count the divorces and step kids on some of our peers, though! I bet you'd knock 'em all dead!
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boxx - 2006-06-25 18:06:01
Marriage is overrated. i PREFER to NOT be married.
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Natalie - 2006-06-25 19:17:15
At my 10 yr reunion they were giving out the awards for who had the most kids (someone had 5), who had the oldest kid (someone had a 12 yr old - remember this was only a 10 yr reunion), who had been married the longest, etc, etc. One of my friends (who was single & childless - just like me at the time) but had completed her masters & was working toward her PHD wondered why there weren't any awards for getting a college degree or actually moving out of our small town. At my 20 yr reunion there were people who were already grandparents, were divorced & remarried a number of times and my friend who is now a successful college professor at a swanky university commented that apparently being intelligent and creative still isn't enough to win an award at a highschool reunion!
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betty - 2006-06-25 19:28:23
You were/are gorgeous!!
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Kungfukitten - 2006-06-25 20:05:46
My 10 year reunion was all about passing around baby pictures - I should have brought a picture of my cat. Everyone was married, blah blah blah. My 20th is coming up in a year and I'm wondering about going. My only hope is that I'll be skinnier and cuter than the ones who have had a bazillion children, wrinkles, and husbands. Plus I'm going to lie about everything: "I spent New Year's in Munich with this adorable French man named Jean-Paul. I didn't speak a word of French, but who needs words when we spoke the language of love." Throws back long blonde tresses and laughs in lilting soprano. You get the idea. You should do the same. You look just like the girl in those pictures - I bet your classmates can't say the same. ;)
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LA - 2006-06-25 20:31:55
A good half of my class hadn't yet married or bred at our 20th. My friend Nicole hadn't even gotten a CAT yet! I remember at one point Nicole was looking around and saying, "We're HOW old now? Imposs. I know damn well I'm 26. Whaddya mean Evelyn's KID goes to Julliard? They have a pre-school there or something?" At the end of the night she was making a drunken To-Do list. #1 was to discover where she'd put her 30's. 18 months shy of her 40th birthday and she couldn't grasp the concept of being 30 yet. Doesn't help your situation at all, just thought I'd share. ~LA
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Phil - 2006-06-25 23:01:25
I've said it before and I'll say it again. RRRRRRrrrrrrrr!! Apparently only 10 people turned up to my 20th school reunion out of 140. Though it was a preppy boarding school, we all hated each other. I've got 2 really good mates from school though but they're more like brothers for the shit we survived together.
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cat - 2006-06-26 00:52:00
1. "...I had noticed at my five year high school reunion, the first thing out of everyone�s mouth had been 'Are you married?� and �Do you have any children?'� It ia for this and a myriad of other reasons that I never have and never intend to attend a HS reunion, and if anyone from my graduating class manages to track me down? "Oh you didn't hear? Cat died in a freak corn threshing incident three weeks after graduation." 2. "Where are the 'beautiful people' now? Sad. Overweight. Addicted to Prozac. Sitting in their tract homes looking out over their lawns and wondering if their husbands are screwing their much younger secretaries?" Damn, now that just might make a trip down memory lane worthwhile... 3. "I�m afraid of some freak with gardening shears." HEE! I'm sorry, I don't meet to make light of the situation, it's just that the sentence reads so humorously; classic Witty. 4. "I want to be around healthy, happy people. I want to observe them. I want to see what its like to not have everything be a big drama." Do such people really exist? I keep searching for them myself but so far I've not had any luck. :(
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Echoes - 2006-06-26 07:26:35
*laughs* i havent even finished school yet, you're all so old!!!!
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scotvalkyrie - 2006-06-26 13:06:24
At my 10th reunion, I was amazed to find out several things: High-School-Grudges were STILL being held by certain of the girls, I was apparently very popular (which was a surprise to me, since I worked hard at NOT belonging to any particular clique), and the guy I had a huge crush on had a huge crush on me. How stupid we all were back then, still are, and ever shall be, world without end, amen.
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Andria - 2006-06-26 13:26:40
I didn't go to my 10 year reunion, because a) high school was the most miserable experience of my life, and b) I still live in the same city I went to school in, and see people around (though I don't talk to them, so I just silently curse and mock them). But it's ALL about being married and popping out those kids. I am only 32, and I am the only childless person I know. People look at me like I'm crazy when I say I don't have any plans at the moment to marry and/or procreate.
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Autumn - 2006-06-26 14:14:31
Be proud. Know that these stressed out, often single, parents envy your freedom. Because they do. How wickedly smug I felt that time at the drugstore when I saw a Miss AllThat classmate with a rugrat clinging to her ankles, throwing a temper tantrum. "Yeah, honey, who's got the life now?" For the record, we're not quite ready for our 30th, but my high school group of 8 friends must be marital and parental underachievers: 3 moms, 4 kids, 5 marriages, 2 divorces. All 8 more or less Happy.
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luva - 2006-06-27 05:10:27
when i worked on the west side of chicago, the first thing any of my coworkers asked me was "have any kids?" followed by "are you married?" the sequence of the questions was interesting, as was the fact that most of them had kids and/or were married, and they all told me to wait as long as i felt i needed to.

is that relevant?

I just graduated in 99, but I'm not at all looking forward to our 10 year reunion... a few people I went to school with actually want to have a mini-reunion in August. Just because. To that I say: um, riiiiiiight... I enjoyed high school but, ya know, there's a reason I moved out of that town and there's a reason I don't keep in touch with them anymore, so I just can't find it in myself to want to go. Hmm, is that wrong? :)

Also, in regards to today's entry, holy crap!! I'm so so sorry you have to deal with all of that. That's terrible that your landlord is so uncaring, and even more terrible that your neighbor is potentially mental. I wish only the best for you and the entire situation!
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