What about those people that change drastically. I recently ran into Ponto (still the same) who tells me about other people that have had drastic changes. I guess it comes when people leave an old life behind and seek a new one-change is inevitable.I come back and thankfully, some BA friends still remain similar. There is Erik, now a smoker and between schools but relativly the same person. Rechlin and Travis seem the same.... Strube has been perhaps my greatest ally in the fun I have here at home. He always calls me and we always do stuff. For this I am appreicative. He is still the same guy I have always known and it always brings back memories from days past when we talk about some things. Mary is still similar and even Elliot. I would have to say the most unchanged to a changed life is Steve. He moved away just like lots of other people. But everytime I see him he is the same old Steve Dogg. What about myself? Have I changed. I don't think much except for a little longing for Mankato. I always got the Brookfield News at school to try and connect me to my hometown but even then I knew I was just trying to fool myself that I only cared about one town. Even with my same old friends things feel different, now I realize that things should and have changed no matter how much I do not want to accept it.

some people really need to look in the mirror.

Strube has been perhaps my greatest ally in the fun I have here at home. He always calls me and we always do stuff. For this I am appreicative. He is still the same guy I have always known and it always brings back memories from days past when we talk about some things.

if he was so appreciative, perhaps he would've reciprocated a little more often. especially towards the end of the summer, when the new girlfriend, the friend who betrayed him (for years without apology), and the new girlfriend's hair became his number one priorities, not his true friends. funny how someone can repeat towards others terrible things that have been done to them, and be none the wiser. well, i'm sure he will be now, at least i hope.