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personally, i haven't gone to any high school reunions.
i went to high school in southern new hampshire, for gods sake--i got away as fast as i could and had no interest in going back.
i keep in touch with one friend from those days. i am pleased that has worked out. i have had and lost contact with a few others, but no matter.
i went back to my ridiculous little home town once--it seemed to have been shrunk, like a sweater someone put in the dryer by accident. the longer i was there, the more i did not want to see anyone i knew who stuck around. strangely, the same went for my brother, who is in general the guy who has all the nostalgia neurons that i lack.
i am sure that many of the folk i went to high school with turned into interesting folk and that many others did not. i have heard stories about fugitive hair and expanding waistlines but could not really make myself care. i watched romy and michelle's high school reunion instead.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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