This is funny - I was going to say "These are our old friends," but then I thought, that was not the right sense of what I was trying to say! So the four of us go back a long way. We bought our house in 1970 and two years later, Ronni and Ken bought the house across from us. I had just bought a Lightning sailboat and when I looked at their driveway, there was a yellow Thistle class sailboat! I thought: "Gee, maybe we will be friends." Well that was an understatement. We have been friends now for 50 years. We have sailed together and vacationed with each other. We flew to Milan, Italy to visit them when Ken was sent there for his work. Our daughters are good friends with their two daughters as well, and to top it all off, we both celebrated our 50th wedding anniversaries together in Hawaii. They live in Charleston, South Carolina and came to New York where they vacationed with one daughter and her husband and their two boys. So they came for lunch today and we got to visit here before they flew home. So, yes, we go back some.
Heartwarming that you could get together and visit.
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So glad you all got together! Of course I loved having my big brother and Ronni home too! Nice photo of all of you!
ReplyDeleteI think the testament to a wonderful life-long friendship is seeing someone after several years as if it was only yesterday that we were last together. Our paths may have diverged through the woods but we always come back to where we started!
ReplyDeleteAnd the coolest thing about the visit was having Amy and Vivian visiting with our daughter, Jen, and her child, Harlow, 2,500 miles away in California at the same time we were breaking bread together in New York. How cool is that!
PS: Many thanks for the commemorative photo and memories!
What a wonderful photo of all four of you! Isn't it great that you could visit before they went back home. That's the best - being able to catch up after a long time. betsey
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