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Happiness is watching five of the snobbiest girls from your high school shaking their very hefty bottoms to “Hey Macarena” at your ten year reunion.\u00a0 It was dizzying.\u00a0 I hate that I got so much gratification from the fact that they were all obesely overwight but then I remembered one of them saying something to me at the grotesquely awkward age of fifteen about how I might one<\/strong><\/em> day<\/strong><\/em> be pretty enough for someone to marry me.\u00a0 Yeah.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Katie and I\u00a0were the “weird girls” in high school.\u00a0 We were drama dorks and\u00a0we listened to a lot of\u00a0Bob Dylan and Pheobe Snow.\u00a0 We were far from dark or mysterious though.\u00a0 We used to do cartwheels down the hall and shove funyuns up our nose just for a good time.\u00a0 I’m pretty sure people thought we were high all the time – even though we had never seen the stuff yet in our lives.\u00a0 When we showed up at the “Castle” (the very odd stucco building where the reunion took place) I’m pretty sure people were expecting\u00a0a show.\u00a0 But, we strolled in, the quiet adults we have become – and I am happy to say we were greeted with a horde of people who were anxiously awaiting our arrival. OUR arrival?\u00a0 How bizzarre.\u00a0 But, we were calm and quiet – two things no one from high school would have expected.\u00a0 Katie had a two month old strapped to her belly and I had just been in\u00a0a car with a six year old and a two year old – I’m sure I wasn’t bounding with the kind of energy that they were all used to.\u00a0 But they missed us.\u00a0 We were two out of three people there that had actually made homes out of state and it was kind of frightening to see how much people had not<\/em> changed.\u00a0 I am so far from that weird girl that I used to be.\u00a0 Or am I?\u00a0 As much as they were everything I had expected them to be, maybe I was just as predictable.\u00a0 And we embraced that about each other.\u00a0 Even some of the “snobby” girls.\u00a0 They hugged me as if we were inseperable in ten years ago.\u00a0 It’s a weird thing to realize that there is a whole group of people who know you so well because they watched you grow up.\u00a0 And even though you don’t know each other at all, you still own territory in their hearts and minds.\u00a0 Their faces will never leave my landscape.\u00a0 That impact is really bizarre.\u00a0 I thought I was completely seperate from these people but the reality is that we really helped each other become who we are today. For better or for worse.<\/p>\n

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Happiness is watching five of the snobbiest girls from your high school shaking their very hefty bottoms to “Hey Macarena” at your ten year reunion.\u00a0 It was dizzying.\u00a0 I hate that I got so…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-relationships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}