It started with a phone call.
"Hi, Barbra? ... you don't know me, but I'm your cousin!"
How cool is THAT?!
It's one of those things - you can never know how it feels, unless it's happened to you. Tingles all over!
We started with e-mails. Then we planned to meet. Then we had to cancel. Then we planned to meet again. And we had to cancel again.
Being persistent runs in the family, so we planned to meet again. This time everyone made it. It's always nerve-wracking, meeting new people, but I felt pretty comfortable with them. They're very down-to-earth ... and they made me laugh. I'm looking fowrawd to our next get-together. We're gonna bring the kids to Hoffman's Playland! It's strange to think, we were probably there at the same time as kids, but we didn't know it.. And now, we get to bring our kids there together. Hoffman's rocks. I'd like to open one here. :-)
Then today I went to my nieces softball game.
Everyone was dripping with sweat. 90 freakin degrees holy shit kind of hot. Wow.
My niece rocks! She's a softball natural!
Had to stop for gas on my way back home. The sign said 'please prepay' so I headed in. Dude at the gas pump called my name. I turn. I don't recognise him at all. My mind starts stumbling through the memories that are not purple hazed over - nope - still no clue. So I say: "Who are you?" He says "Eric Hough". Holy shit! I say. OMG we haven't seen each other since high school. He said he was gettin by ok, I said the same. We both said "it was good to see you". and a couple of other pleasantries ... it really was good to see him.
This kind of thing just doesn't happen to me a lot -- mostly because I moved away from my hometown 20 years ago -- but it was really cool.
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