The Friendship of a Lifetime, Relationship Lessons, and 50 Years!
When we are very young, our first friends are determined by geography and our parents. After we start figuring things out on our own, we gravitate towards certain ‘favorites’ and even later we begin to choose. I am one of the lucky ones, because those that were chosen for me back then are still the ones I choose now. Chosen for me. I like that. I met Michael first – but I don’t remember ever not knowing him. Our parents were high school friends that stayed close afterwards. He was born a month before me and we were always together. We have pictures of us taking baths together. Even when our parents moved out of the city they moved to the same neighborhood, three houses apart – even closer than they had lived before. Michael is as much a part of me as … well, me . That move to the new neighborhood just before our 7 th birthdays brought me to Donna, my first best girlfriend. The three of us were always together. It was a great neighborhood; those were great years. ...