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08/23/2003 Archived Entry: "MY PLAN FOR MONDAY"

MY PLAN FOR MONDAY

There were 9 of us "girls" (we were girls back then) who ran around together when we were in grade school, junior high and high school growing up in Salina. Some of us went to college together. One never married, one divorced and re-married, while the others are still married to the same guy they started out with, except that one is now a widow. Two committed suicide and one died of cancer. The rest of us are alive and well and racing past the three-quarter century mark. That's pretty good, I'd say.

We don't make the kind of effort we should to stay in touch as we're pretty well spread out across the country. We just hear about one another through relatives and friends. Ivy and I always attend the class reunions, but the others rarely show.

Three of us are having lunch together on Monday and a fourth may be joining us later in the afternoon. She's here from Florida. At least that's the plan. I'm really looking forward to it as we'll just pick up where we left off the last time we were together, somewhere in mid-sentence. It's nice and easy.