u/Short-Duck3521

My BFF and I grew up together since kindergarten. When we were in high school, we were both on the girls volleyball team all four years, and on the girls basketball team our freshman and sophomore years. We even landed our first ever paying jobs as teens at an ice cream parlor. Her mother on most school mornings gives me a ride to campus from my home. All that changed almost immediately after high school graduation 35 years ago. After seeing each other a couple of times during that summer before we both started college - she went to a university 100 miles away, and I was attending college out of state - I never seen or talked with her again. Despite the fact her parents' home and mine were only a 13 minute walk from each other. I know where she is today: she's married and living at a beach house 40 miles away from our hometown, and has two sons in their mid-20s. I am not sure if she ever perused my information to know my whereabouts and my life, but I assume she had but never reached out.

I was wondering if your experience was just as quick or was it slow in that you still keep in touch with your BFF but contact become less and less over time until they just disappear from your life.

My BFF and I grew up together since kindergarten. When we were in high school, we were both on the girls volleyball team all four years, and on the girls basketball team our freshman and sophomore years. We even landed our first ever paying jobs as teens at an ice cream parlor. Her mother on most school mornings gives me a ride to campus from my home. All that changed almost immediately after high school graduation 35 years ago. After seeing each other a couple of times during that summer before we both started college - she went to a university 100 miles away, and I was attending college out of state - I never seen or talked with her again. Despite the fact her parents' home and mine were only a 13 minute walk from each other. I know where she is today: she's married and living at a beach house 40 miles away from our hometown, and has two sons in their mid-20s. I am not sure if she ever perused my information to know my whereabouts and my life, but I assume she had but never reached out.

I was wondering if your experience was just as quick or was it slow in that you still keep in touch with your BFF but contact become less and less over time until they just disappear from your life.

Quite a number of my friends in school have their eyebrows raised after I tell them the first names of my Mom (Dale) and my older sister (Daryl). Thankfully, my name (Lara) should not be confused for a boy. Is my family unusual that we have uncommon first names for girls/women?

Quite a number of my friends in school have their eyebrows raised after I tell them the first names of my Mom (Dale) and my older sister (Daryl). Thankfully, my name (Lara) should not be confused for a boy. Is my family unusual that we have uncommon first names for girls/women?