i've had many lives since then. but that christmas eve was spent with a group of my best friends from high school; sonia, chelle, sue, allan, brian, kevin, was phil there? or matthew, billy and samantha? about ten or twelve of us went along to midnight mass for a sing-a-long. none of us were church goers but it was something we all wanted to do together this year. i remember it being pretty fantastic, probably more because we were all together on christmas eve than anything else.
the following christmas night we gathered at hammond park and one of the tapes we were listening to was an album of prince's. maybe brian had received it that morning, i don't remember but one of the songs was 1999 and it felt like such a long way away then. we had many dreams to fulfill before the millennium.
i'm not sure where all those high school friends are now. but i look back at those years with absolute joy and thankfulness. not many people can say they loved high school, i'm one that truly did and it was because of this amazing group of friends.
merry christmas to all those i've been lucky to call friends and those friendships yet to come.
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