There are no friends like the friends you grew up with

There are no friends like the friends you grew up with

This is especially true if you come from a small town where everyone knows everyone else. The bond goes back to when you started kindergarten together, some of them were your very first friends you met.

Some lived on the same block as you, all your life. They know all your deepest, darkest secrets and still love you, kind of friends. I know I was blessed to grow up in this special place and have memories that will last a lifetime with these amazing people. 

The town I grew up in was a small country town filled with alot of city influences from all the people we got to meet every weekend when they came up to vacation here. Yet it had that small town feel because we knew each other's parents, we knew who owned the local bar, the dry cleaners, the local hair salon.

We couldn't get away with anything because by that night it would have gotten back to your parents, it was that kind of small town.

We had it all, we had the mountains to hike through and find salamanders in the woods after the rain. We had lakes, that we waterskied in, we had crystal clear rivers to jump from rock to rock and walk for miles. We jumped off waterfalls and swam wherever we found water, there was nothing more beautiful then our mountains to grow up in.

We skied in the winter, drove snowmobiles for miles from one friends house to another all through the woods. We went ice skating on the local ponds and then sat in a little shack on Deyohes Park and drank hot chocolate together. 

One of the things I love the most is that you don't have to explain to others things like "The well" and "The old Airport" because we know where they are. We all knew where the parties were at, the launch, Dillion hill, the chalet or the DU. 

We were locals and so we knew these terms.We hung out with people older than us and people younger than us, these were the people you saw at parties, at the diner, or the local roller skating rink, we all hung out together, all the time.

There was no discrimination, we had interracial families living there,  in the days that people were still so closed minded, yet we saw no color, we saw friends, that's all. 

In our little town we had drag queens and gays, single mothers, Jewish, Black, Chinese and Christian all living peacefully together in one small town.

We had all worked or knew someone that worked in the "hotels" The Concord, Kutchers, The Pines, Grosssingers,We don't have to have a ten minute conversation about what a bungalow is or what bungalow bunnies are,we know who the pickle man is or what a casino is, because we grew up knowing these things.

We know what these names mean when we hear them, Jamesway, Leftys, Gagers, Ellorys, Joe Rotas, Gigi's Pizza and The Car wash, no need for any more words, it instantly brings back memories. 

We speak the same language even 40 years later, and we can pick up right where we left off. 

I am blessed to have so many of us that now live in Florida and we get to once again be part of each other's lives, remembering old memories and making new ones.

I know I was blessed to be raised in such a unique and wonderful town and I know I will never forget all of my hometown friends.

Thanks for the memories!

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