Once in love with Amy.....:)

The summer before high school, Dianne and I met in the school hall between typing and math. We were introduced by a mutual friend with whom neither of us is mutually friends with any more.

While we chatted on and off through our freshman year, it wasn't until the following spring that we became best friends. I'd been cast in "Charley's Aunt" and Uncle Woody asked me to bring him a girl for one of the other female roles (the play was put on by the all-boy school across the street. The same all-boy school that couldn't find enough females to put on "Anne Frank"). I immediately thought of Dianne and brought her to the next practice. And so began our stage careers, she as "Amy" and me as "Kitty." To this day, we still write to each other with lines from the play: "My dear Kitty...." "My dear Amy...." :)

Of all my high school memories, being in this play is tops. I got my first boy-girl kiss because of it -- and from a senior boy, no less! Quite the accomplishment for a freshman! Bwahahahaha! But kissing aside, the laughter, the fun and excitement and the joy of the experience are what memories should be all about. I never think back on Charley's Aunt without grinning. One of the crew members wrote a parody of the play, "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre -- A Musical" that the cast from the play actually presented in the drama room one day before school let out (the 'musical' contained the immortal lines, "Donna Lucia -- you've changed your mind!" "Yes; brain surgery can be such fun!" Obviously I liked it a lot because I remember parts of it distinctly!).

We were best buddies the rest of high school, sharing crushes and make up and jokes. Then we graduated and I was a butthead and we stopped talking for about five or ten years. :/ And then we reconnected, worked on our high school reunion committee, and have been in touch ever since. Something precious that I'd taken for granted was given back to me and I'm forever grateful to have a second chance.

I still haven't sent her my phone number, though :D I've got to do that right now before I forget again.