Lost friends

I was talking with Keri the other day and it dawned on me, I have lost contact which everyone i knew in my childhood..All except for her.

Melody, Emerson, Ginny, Cole, Daniel and his sister ...All of them gone disappeared off the grid. Ghosts.

one could argue that those were childhood friends from Houston. That loosing touch was inevitatable.
i moved to Georgetown, TX when i was 12 just before my 13th birthday.

Ginny and i wrote letters to each other often, even after she moved to Maryland, right up until she graduated from collage...Then i lost contact. Even in this age of the internet, I've failed to find her. i miss her insults and her jokes.

Melody moved away wile i still lived in Houston, one could say she was one of the first real friends i had. We wrote like children do, meaning not very often. When i finally got online several years ago my mother and hers started to exchange email and i got her's ...She never responded and so i gave up.

Emerson also moved wile i was still in Elementary school. We never wrote..All i knew is that he had moved "to Alaska". But here is where the small world effect kicks in. One summer years later (i was 15), after i had moved to G'town, i was at the local ice cream parlor (yes..They still exist). i sat down and ordered a sundae and looked to my right at the young man beside me. i thought ~damn he looks like Emerson~ and so being the forward person that i was i said to him "you know you remind me of a friend of mine"
he looked at me a moment and said "yeah you look kinda like someone i know too"
"yeah but you can't be him, that was back when i lived in Houston, and he moved to Alaska"
his eyebrow raised a bit "i was from Houston and i live in Alaska"
"i stared at him "Emerson?!?"
he stared back "Sheridan?!? Holy Shit!"
come to find out, his grandparent lived in G'town as well and he was visiting for the summer. But of course summer ended and i have not seen Emerson since that time.
but that was Houston...Surly your local friends...
nope, no such luck...With a few twists....
Zane...And his brother Zack, Sean, Kevin (who was my nemesis all throughout junior high), Doug, David Davis, Steven, Dan, Andrew, the other Andrew, Lauren and so many others i have lost track of.
but oddly enough
Michel who was one of my main nemesis in high school (we did not get along at all) ended up marring C.J., A.K.A. EX wife#1. He treats my son with kindness , does not badmouth me when my son is around. I respect him for that. Just for the record C.J. split on amicable terms, we are more like siblings than a married couple, and we fought like it....We did not want our son growing up like that.
Ness,Ex#2 also went to high school with me, though she ended up moving into Austin before my junior year. She and C.J. were good friends, sort of, and after she moved we lost track of her, then about 5 years later after C.J. and i had married we were at the mall and lo and behold, there she was running a little jewelry kiosk. We chewed th fat awhile, discussed old time and once again she faded from my life...Fast forward about three years. i was working for ExxonMobil and she pulls in to get gas for her cab., so one thing led to another, a few platonic get togethers then....Boom. i shall save that story for another time.
Lately though the friends i have made online seemed to have stood the test of time. J-chan, Night, Kilroy, SaraJo though a few i do not talk to often enough.none of them have disappeared.
i hope it stays that way...