I’m still friends with kids I went to high school with — 500 in my graduating class!

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We keep in touch on Facebook, yearly reunions, and group phone calls.

I just noticed a Class of 1968 positive word of the year for 2024, thread in our Facebook group.

Leave a positive word that begins with the first letter of your name. It can only be one word.

Let’s keep our spirits up.

Scrolling through the names was relaxing, and a relief every time I saw a friend was still alive. That’s a thing.

• Kathy — kindness
• Linda — loving
• George — generosity
• Connie — compassion
• Frank — forgiveness

Name after name brought smiles and tender feelings.

Then there was Bryan. Good old Bryan — science nerd, class photographer, asked me to the prom, Bryan.

Bryan — bacon!

Bacon!

Pause for laughter.

Haha — now the top song of 1968.