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(I feel like I've written this before...)
I graduated in 1995. We had a very big, but tight, bunch of friends during senior year. I would say there were about 20 of us, and we would hang out every weekend, sometimes in different incarnations, but we were always together.
Because we were so close in high school, a bunch of us were relatively miserable when we got to college. (I was among the most miserable of the miserable.) We used e-mail to keep in touch daily, just chatting back and forth, and it wasn't out of the ordinary to have between 50-80 e-mails a day going back and forth.
During that first year of college, we all managed to stay "together-" the 20 or so of us. And like Jadzia said...we really believed we would stay that way forever. Of course, it didn't happen. People dropped off here and there. Interests changed, people relocated. It was sad while it was happening, but it felt natural.
However, the ones I was closest with - and there were about 10 or so - are still my best friends. The only person from college that I really keep in touch with is Quadrette. But most weekends and all parties - my high school friends are the ones I'm with. Our friendships just stayed solid. And they, in turn, have become friends with my other friends, and created new friendships, expanding the "group" and creating some fun hangout situations. I'm very happy with how it all turned out.
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You have to laugh at yourself...because you'd cry your eyes out if you didn't. - Emily Saliers
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