There Are No Friends Like The Friends You Grew Up With

There Are No Friends Like The Friends You Grew Up With

So recently I found a childhood friend on Facebook. I had no idea that she lived in Miami, just 30 minutes from me. We got together this past weekend and I have to tell you it was as if no time had passed. Even though it had been almost 40 years. This is what it is like to come from a small town where everyone knows everyone else like we did.

These are the friends that you started kindergarten with. Some of them were your very first friends you ever met. She lived down the block from me and our parents knew each other. We played at her house or at mine from grade school.

We were blessed to grow up with friends like this. We grew up in a special place. A small town where everyone knows everyone and we have memories that will last a lifetime. Growing up in this small town in upstate New York that was filled with city influences. We got to meet all kinds of people every weekend and every summer when they came up here for vacation. We had to be open minded as we met all kinds of people all the time.

Us “locals” knew each other's parents. We knew who owned the local bar, or the dry cleaners (like my friend's parents did). We couldn't get away with anything because by that night it would have gotten back to our parents.

We had the mountains to hike through and the forests to find salamanders in after the rain. We had the lakes, that we water skied in, the crystal clear rivers to jump from rock to rock. We jumped off waterfalls and swam wherever we found water. We skied in the winter, and drove snowmobiles for miles from one person's house to another through the woods. We went ice skating on the ponds and then sat in a little shack on Deyohes Park and drank hot chocolate together. 

You don't have to explain to others things like "The well" or "The old Airport" 

We all knew where the parties were at, the launch, Dillion hill, the chalet or the DU. 

We were locals, 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 roller skating rink, and we all hung out together.

There was no discrimination as we had interracial families even in the days that so many people were still so closed minded. Yet we saw no color, we saw friends, that's all. 

We had drag queens and gays, single mothers, Jewish and Christian all living together in one small town. We had all worked or knew someone that worked in the "hotels" The Concord, Kutchers, The Pines, and Grosssingers.

We don't need to have to have a ten minute conversation about what a bungalow is or what a bungalow bunny was. We knew who the pickle man was or what a casino was because we grew up knowing.

We remember Jamesway, Leftys, Gagers, Ellorys, Joe Rotas, Gigi's Pizza and The Car wash, no need for words, it instantly brings back memories. 

We speak the same language even 40 years later, we can pick up right where we left off just like we did this weekend.

I am blessed that so many of us that now live in Florida or that come here for vacations and we get to see. It's so wonderful to get to once again be part of each other's lives, remembering old memories and making new ones. 

So today my friends, especially my hometown friends, if you have friends from growing up and you still speak to them, then you are blessed. Because no one speaks your language like your hometown friends and I was so blessed this past weekend to reconnect with one of mine. 

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