High school best friend

vraiblonde

vraiblonde

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Are you still friends with them?

My HS bestie stopped talking to me after Trump was elected in 2016. Today I noticed that she's unfriended me on FB. So I'm kind of sad about that but it was only a matter of time. We were closer than sisters and actually married a pair of brothers, and spoke every couple weeks for all these years....but her hatred for Trump is stronger than her love for me so that's that.

Her daughter is the one I mentioned on here that I blocked after she posted a bunch of vile anti-Jewish crap on her FB. The daughter is a newly minted lesbian, and her son is gay and now trans. She and I have always been very different people but it was never a problem until she got sucked into the hate-Trump cult.

I'm still friends with a bunch of people I was buddies with in high school - real friends, not just on FB - but both of my bestest girlfriends went off the rails. One got into drugs and finally died a few years ago, and now this one.

So are you still friends with your HS best friend or did you grow apart?
 
Grumpy

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All my best friends from High School are dead, I was great friends with 4 guys that I kept up with over the years but all have passed over the past 15 years. Always makes me wonder why I am the only one left, I did way more stupid things than them.
 
RoseRed

RoseRed

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My BFF from HS and I have somewhat lost contact. She has a FB that she never uses. We last talked a few years ago. It makes me sad. She was one of my bridesmaids back in 1995. But I do still have two other BFFs since 1986 and we still keep in regular contact. One is in Phoenix and the other in MB, SC. I am still friends with others from HS on FB.
 
glhs837

glhs837

Power with Control
Absolute best friend from HS passed from cancer a while back, Stayed friends til the end. Next two in line? Still such good friends that a few years back, we spent a week hanging at one guys camp up near the lake from on Golden Pond. just hung and drank and ate and swam.

Not from high school, but not long after, literally the year after high school, guy that I went though AO, Aircrew, SERE and crew position school with before going our separate ways in the Navy, staying in loose touch that whole time. Ended up taking identical jobs working together for six years. He's my brother from another mother, closer to me than either of my bio brothers. We live about three miles apart, which those two young guys could have never imagined. :)
 
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Kyle

Kyle

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Best friend from high school is still best friend. We’ve gotten into trouble and had too many adventures together to completely part ways. :lmao: “

Talk to him every couple of weeks see him every couple of months. His sister still lives nearby so when he and his wife come down to visit, they usually swing by.
 
black dog

black dog

Free America
I met my best friend in church nursery school 62 years ago, we have been like brothers since.
I have quite a few lefty friends from growing up in Maryland still. All of us have never held any of our religious or political believes against another.
We have known each other way too long for that sillyness.
 
Sneakers

Sneakers

Just sneakin' around....
My HS best friend was someone I've known since kindergarten. Lost him as a friend when he developed a bad case of TDS just before this last election. Haven't spoken to him or his wife since August. 65 years of real adventures together. I am sad about that, but he crossed the line.

Unfortunately, he was also the path to a slew of other old HS friends, so I'll probably never see them again either.
 
SamSpade

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vraiblonde said:
Are you still friends with them?

My HS bestie stopped talking to me after Trump was elected in 2016. Today I noticed that she's unfriended me on FB. So I'm kind of sad about that but it was only a matter of time. We were closer than sisters and actually married a pair of brothers, and spoke every couple weeks for all these years....but her hatred for Trump is stronger than her love for me so that's that.

Her daughter is the one I mentioned on here that I blocked after she posted a bunch of vile anti-Jewish crap on her FB. The daughter is a newly minted lesbian, and her son is gay and now trans. She and I have always been very different people but it was never a problem until she got sucked into the hate-Trump cult.

I'm still friends with a bunch of people I was buddies with in high school - real friends, not just on FB - but both of my bestest girlfriends went off the rails. One got into drugs and finally died a few years ago, and now this one.

So are you still friends with your HS best friend or did you grow apart?
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I guess I had two, since I went to two high schools.

The second one - we were very good friends. Double dated, same sports teams, worked at the same store, and for a year in college, roommates.

Kinda went sour around then, but that was also the time I got into that cult. I've never even found him online anywhere - nada. All I know is, everyone ELSE I know who knew him, ALSO lost touch with him.

The other - I always felt he was one of the best friends I ever had. We were neck and neck vying for valedictorian, and had I stayed in the first school, I've no doubt I would have gotten it. But we were best friends, hung out at each other's homes, same debate team. Kept in touch sparingly after I moved, occasionally kept in touch during college. Saw him before I moved to Massachusetts, he was in the Air Force (ROTC at MIT). Hear on and off. Visited him once at the Pentagon where he worked - and then he decided to leave the military (I think after Lt Colonel)

To join the Peace Corps. That was when I learned all about The Gambia in West Africa. Got a few letters and then some years later, when he came back -

He decided to become a Catholic priest. I've tried writing him over the years, but it's sparing - I know he lost his sister and I think his parents are gone. And the priest thing didn't really take me by surprise - I never though he was gay but he never seemed interested in girls, either. Kind of like a less annoying Sheldon. His priesthood duties generally went to being dean of students ar several schools throughout the country.

I don't know why I feel - bad for him. He's had an extremely interesting life. It just seems he doesn't have a lot to show for it.

So - to make a long story even longer - no. Don't still have contact with them. But I have always striven to make the environment for my children, so that THEY can.
 
TPD

TPD

the poor dad
My best friend from HS was a foreign exchange student from Finland during our senior year. We hit it off almost immediately. Have remained best friends ever since. We have both crossed the pond a couple times over the years to visit. He has sent his kids to us for a week or two to entertain. We text via WhatsApp almost daily. He had a stroke about 4 years ago so it has been difficult talking on the phone - he’s never really gained back his English speaking skills, though he can still write/text English. It is my turn to make a visit to Finland - hopefully in the next 12 months.

My Finnish friend and I became friends with a Puerto Rican while in high school. He was a junior while we were seniors. We did everything together during our senior year of high school. Kinda lost touch with the Puerto Rican a couple years after HS, but have gotten back in touch the last couple years because of our political views aligning. So unlike some of you, Trump brought us together rather than separating us.

The American, the Finn, and the Puerto Rican - I guess you could call us the odd throuple.…
 
NextJen

NextJen

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My best friend in high school was also my best friend in elementary school. We are still besties today and have been through so many life events together. She just came down to surprise visit her oldest sister who lives minutes away from me, so we all hung out this past week - a nice early Christmas present.
 
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