Posted by oldtanker on August 01, 2015 at 18:17:36 from (64.118.3.19):
In Reply to: 40 yr class reunion posted by buickanddeere on August 01, 2015 at 14:35:18:
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B&D, most of us don't hold a grudge about what happened years ago. I don't. No one picked on or bullied me, they just made it clear that I was an outsider and wasn't welcome. I did have several friends and dated a couple of girls but was shunned by most of the others because I wasn't from here. Most of my friends I'm still in contact with and I have no burning need to see the others. Not to spite them. Just no desire. I see Dean, Art, Mike and a couple of others several times a year if not more often. My wife I see daily. One of the girls I dated still lives here, widowed now for 10 years or so and I see her from time to time too. The rest? I don't know and don't care. I attended HS here from Sep 72 to graduation May 1973. So I knew most of my classmates 9 months. Not like I grew up with them. Had I grown up with them things would be different and it would be fun to see them. Heck my dad bought this place in 72. It took the locals 20 years before they stopped referring to it as the "old Koep" place and started referring to it by our last name. Should give you an idea of how closed minded these people were up here.
As far as my classmates, some have done well others not so good. One is the county drunk. Another became as NASA engineer. The Val Victorian of my class received an appointment to West Point and flunked out in the first semester. He went on to get a college education and has been successful. Another started farming with his dad. They went broke during the 80's farm crisis. My friends keep me posted even if I don't care. They did grow up with everyone but me. I don't tell them I don't care because that would hurt them. I just don't go to the reunions. I made my own way after school and retired at 48. Not rich by any means but not hurting either. So I have time to visit those who I wish to see and the right to not visit with those I don't want too. No grudge, just no desire.
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