Your Oldest Friend?
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The forum thread started by @89th about his daughters 6 YO friend moving away
https://nodebb.the-new-coffee-room.club/topic/37649/life-is-tough-for-6-year-olds/9
made me think. At what age did you meet your oldest friend that you are still in regular contact with?
For me, I have two friends that I met in grade 7 that I am in frequent contact. Nobody earlier than that.
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Mine doesn’t really go back that far. My elementary school friends are all in jail. In HS, I only really had one major friend. He made a pass at me as seniors and it’s been downhill since then. There are a few guys that I was more acquaintes with but we weren’t really friends in school but have become much closer in recent years. But the longest term non-stop succession has been my college friends, though my best friend is a guy that I knew of since we were both 7-8 but we weren’t friends until we were well in our 20s.
The Brad
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9th grade.
In the last year of my father’s life his cousin visited with a childhood friend of theirs that lived not far from where my dad was living at the time (with my sister in Arlington).
This guy and my dad hadn’t seen each other in 72 years. From 8 to 80.
How do you even catch up?
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9th grade.
In the last year of my father’s life his cousin visited with a childhood friend of theirs that lived not far from where my dad was living at the time (with my sister in Arlington).
This guy and my dad hadn’t seen each other in 72 years. From 8 to 80.
How do you even catch up?
@jon-nyc said in Your Oldest Friend?:
9th grade.
In the last year of my father’s life his cousin visited with a childhood friend of theirs that lived not far from where my dad was living at the time (with my sister in Arlington).
This guy and my dad hadn’t seen each other in 72 years. From 8 to 80.
How do you even catch up?
You don’t catch up, but you do find common ground and stories.
When I was 5, my best friends were my cousins, 4-6. He was exactly 1 year to the day younger than me and she was 1 year and a week older. We were friends into our early teens, when they moved to Texas in the 80s, and we lost touch. We tried to reconnect 15 years ago when social media made the world smaller, but he found out about my extreme anti-US labor views (he had become an executive in the AFL-CIO, how ludicrous is that?) and decided he wanted nothing to do with me. His wife died of cancer 2 years later, and he committed suicide a few months later.
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Mine doesn’t really go back that far. My elementary school friends are all in jail. In HS, I only really had one major friend. He made a pass at me as seniors and it’s been downhill since then. There are a few guys that I was more acquaintes with but we weren’t really friends in school but have become much closer in recent years. But the longest term non-stop succession has been my college friends, though my best friend is a guy that I knew of since we were both 7-8 but we weren’t friends until we were well in our 20s.
@LuFins-Dad said in Your Oldest Friend?:
Mine doesn’t really go back that far. My elementary school friends are all in jail. In HS, I only really had one major friend. He made a pass at me as seniors and it’s been downhill since then. There are a few guys that I was more acquaintes with but we weren’t really friends in school but have become much closer in recent years. But the longest term non-stop succession has been my college friends, though my best friend is a guy that I knew of since we were both 7-8 but we weren’t friends until we were well in our 20s.
Yeah, I have quite a few in jail and/or dead too.
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8th grade (13 years old). He lives in Virginia still but when I travel for work 4x a year I stay at his place, and it's fun to catch up. He went through a NASTY divorce (his ex is absolute psycho) so he's juggling a 50/50 split with his 9 year old son, quite a few folks have moved away from the area, so it's mutually nice that we both can still keep in touch and hang out.
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I'm FB friends with a guy I've known since first grade. My mother used to give him a lift home from primary school. He lives on the Isle of Rhodes, I live in Rhode Island. One of us made a better choice, I suspect. Weirdly, I ran into him at my dad's funeral, in 2014 - he was there for the preceding funeral. We still do a bit of banter from time to time.
