JBX

Zero... I hated High School, moved shortly after graduation.

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Harshaw

I live with my best friends from high school. We all went to college together and got a house near campus. But I am about to leave the state, and the rest of them are starting on their careers. I don't think we are going to be hanging out much longer. It's ok though, I've learned that no matter how close you are to someone, leaving only hurts for a while, and there are a lot of people out there who want to be friends if you only look for them.

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Frowning Budah

I have lost touch with almost all of them. I would love to get in touch with a few of them, but I have been unable to find them so far. My Friends weren't the kind that signed up for Classmates.com and things.

wry1

I'll be honest: I really didn't want to keep in touch with most of the people I went to high school with. A couple of people I was friends with (and wanted to stay close to) went to the same college as I did, but life has a way of separating us all, and I only got reacquainted with them at my 10-year reunion (a great time, but that's another story).

...but once again, time has intervened and I only chat with them occasionally via e-mail.

So I guess the answer to your question (as far as I am concerned) is no.

Sleepyjack

I play in a basketball team with old high school friends and we still see each other quite often. We're still generally the best of friends as well. Which is good.

Although other close friends i've had at high school are growing apart quite fast....

I had a really great high school experience so i'd like to see more of those people still. BUt, you still get to meet other cool people elsewhere, so it doens't amtter too much....

mrquackers

I've been out for just about 19 years now. I stay in semi-regular contact with two friends, though one's in Iraq now and I don't go out of my way to see the other when I go back to town. Otherwise, with the exception of an occasional Christmas card to one other friend, I don't see or think too much about any of them.

The number of twists life has taken in those 19 years is astonishing. Falling out of touch with most of those friends is the least surprising of all of them.

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jvwgtr

I had a fairly tight knit group of friends in high school, but 12 years later, I'm in contact with just a couple of them, through rare emails.
We all live in different areas, so it's tough to maintain close friendships.
Of my college buddies, I only keep regular contact with one. Shame, but that's pretty much how life goes.

gozlanfrog

20th HS reunion coming up this year. We'll see.

gremlinx8

I graduated last year and since I go to college in the same city as my high school, I see not only a lot of my friends, but a lot of people I wasn't friends with. I still hang out with and talk to my close friends on a regular basis.

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WarWagon

Now that I think about it more, I think I've talked to maybe 3 people from my High School since I left for college, and those were brief online conversations.

I think what happened was that I lost a lot of respect for them when nobody was open minded enough to go to school away from home. (Orig. from CT, only one other student in my Grad. class moved further away than I did to Georgia Tech, but he's going back to CT because he's flunking out.) It's not even an issue of money, because most who did stay did NOT go to a state school, but rather one of the few private schools, most of which are about 15 minutes away from home if that with insane tuition rates (above 30k a year for tuition alone). But rather than just admitting that they just wanted to stay close to home, they made up BS excuses about "oh, well, uh, this school is really well known for its ______" when it really isn't by any means.

raeanna74

I was homeschooled but was in a homeschool group and graduated with a couple other kids. We never even tried to stay close. We weren't expectionally close before hand but all of us went very different ways. One girl is a vet and married with kids in another city. I went for education at a college hours from where she went. Another guy and his family moved who knows where. I did go to public school for elementary school. Of my 6th grade class there are several now in jail and a couple dead already. 3 of them were partying prom night and crossed a railroad crossing, trying to beat the train, and they were drunk - at least until the train hit them. Kinda glad I didn't go on to highschool with them. I haven't heard about any of them going on to do much with their lives. Sad really.

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txlovely

I've stayed in close touch with two of my school friends, but I have made much better friends over the years through college and work so I don't feel I'm missing out by not keeping up with my former classmates. Most of us went our separate ways.

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RHix613

I stayed in touch with my closest friends for quite a few years. I was already dated the woman I ended up marrying, but when the started getting serious with new "girlfriends", it wasn't convenient to hang with us anymore. So, needless to say, after 13 years, we have all gone our separate ways. I see old friends and its nice to catch up, but that's about it.

Captain Canada

As of right now Im still in touch with all my friends from high school.

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glasscutter43

I talk to two guys from high school at least once a week. One guy lives 75 miles south and the other is 60 miles north. We get together to go camping, fishing, drinking and smoking pot (hey, we live in BC). We are all 45 so this has been going on for a very long time.

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sixate

I hung out with all the potheads in high school. Shortly after I graduated I realized I didn't need any loser friends who wouldn't amount to shit so I stopped hanging out with them. From what I hear they're all still loser stoners who don't work and don't give a fuck about anything other than getting high. Moving on and staying away from those morons was one of the best things I ever did. I don't even know why I ever hung out with them because I never even tried any drugs, even though they all tried to get me to.

There's still 2 people I talk to from time to time. One is a dude that was on the basketball team, and the other is a chic I dated who would love to marry now, but there's no fucking chance in hell that's gonna happen.

Cycler

I have two really close high school friends we can go months without talking and pick up like we had never been apart. But only two out of like a 1000 people I graduated with. Big school.

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juanvaldes

Drop the losers still keep in touch with 3.

Jesus Pimp

I've lost most of my friends from high school 6 years ago. They either stopped talking to me or moved elsewhere. I only have like 3 friends from high school I still talk to. It's kind of sad. Oh well. It's different for me after graduating college. I still keep in contact with a lot of friends and associates. It's called networking.

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amonkie

My younger bro and sis are going through high school right now, so they are friends with a lot of the younger siblings of my friends. As a result, I keep in touch with more people than I might have chosen to, simply because we're picking up and dropping off those permit holding kids.

On the plus side, one of my good friends from high school still remains a great friend, so yay!

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feelgood

It's been a year since my high school graduation. None of my friends go to the same university that I go to. I lost touch with of them b/c of the fact they're either busy or they simply moved on since high school.

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SaltPork

I still hang out with my best friend from HS and I married my HS sweetheart. My best friend married his HS sweetheart and we are close friends with another couple from HS that also got married. Scary to think about it. There are a bunch of other friends from HS that I keep in close touch with as well.

Given the fact that there were about 1000 kids in my graduating class, hanging out with a dozen or so friends from HS isn't so weird, especially when you consider not many moved from this city. The fact that I'm 34 and still keeping in touch with them does seem a bit weird when I explain to other people how long I've known members of our "group".

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anleja

I graduated in '97, my close friends are still here, for the most part. I still have my best friend from 6th grade, most of the other friends I have I met before 10th grade.

I had no desire to go to my 5th year reunion, I figured that the only people I want to see are the friends I already see.

I feel fortunate to have friends like these. They have really been there through the good and the bad. You feel not so old and alone when you are with people who are going through the same stages of life with you.

MSD

I still hang out with a lot of them. There are a few who are such close friends that I would still keep in touch with if I was in witness protection. Some of my friends are too close to let go.

em1014

I've been out of high school for only about a year and a half. There are maybe 4 people I talk to on a regular basis and a few more I would stop to say hello if I passed. For the most part I don't plan on talking to the rest of them ever again. Everything was just so fake in high school.

Oh yeah, I graduated with 299 in my class.

space-n-'cord

I am only 9 months out of HS, but I still talk to most of the people that were in our group...I'd say 4 people who I see every time I go home, and then another 5-6 who I see every-other time, but email regularly.

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