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……………With so many young adults graduating from High School this month….I can’t help but reflect on my High School years and the best friends I made……….BEST FRIENDS FOREVER!!……Jac took this photo at my home of Mary Bobby and me….I met Mary and Bobby in 7th grade at Elmont Memorial Jr. Highschool. We were 12 going on 13…..Mary and Bobby had been together in a different elementary school than I went to, because of where we lived……However, when we did meet, we became INSTANT FRIENDS, and our friendship lasted a lifetime……Bobby and I did so many things together…..We shared many FIRSTS in our lives…..My first Broadway show when we were 13 was with Bobby, [How to Succeed In Business Without Really Trying], and my first trip into NYC without my parents….just Bobby and me on busses and the subway for my first time…I have a very faded picture of us with Robert Moss at the stage door!….We shared out first cigarettes together at his Bar Mitzvah…[it was his idea!]…..My first trip to Europe was to visit Bobby in Sweden where he was studying…afterwards we took many trips together….Denmark, Alaska and Rio to name just a few….we shared our first apartments in NYC together, and summer houses….the trips, the parties and almost all of the special moments in my life were  shared with Bobby……We were brothers…..Mary and I first bonded over our mutual love of art. We were in many of the same art classes together…She was a terrific painter….Mary became my high school crush, and we dated throughout junior and senior high….You may recall a recent post of my senior prom with Mary, Bobby, his date Phyllis and me in the pictures…..In this photo we were going to one of our High School reunions. Mary had flown in from California where she moved to, and Bobby lived in NYC…..We met at my house, and then I drove us to the reunion……..We became even closer as friends as we got older….We knew more about life, and each other……When they both passed away within months of each other last year, it was very difficult for me to deal with. I didn’t have either one to commiserate with to express my grief……Jac was gone so I had no one who could understand the depth of my grief….Their passing left a huge whole in my heart……..as the saying goes……”Grief  never ends…..but it changes. It’s a passage, not a place to stay….Grief is not a sign of weakness, nor a lack of faith…..It is the price of love.””…….I know I will never in my life have BFF like them again………………Only my pictures and memories………BFF

………………”Sometimes memories sneak out of my eyes and roll down my cheeks”

……………………”A society grows great when old men plant trees the shade of which they know they will never sit under…..Good people do things for other people……that’s it……the end”

………………………….The two potted Rose trees were anniversary presents to Jac and me from her sister Marianne over 7 years ago. Every fall they come in the house and I put them on the sun porch that gets a good southern exposure…….Every winter they loose their leaves, and no matter how much I spray them they get these cobwebs all over them with tiny bugs…..WHERE do they come from???? I always think, okay this is it they are done for….In the early spring, before I bring them outside again, I spray them again, and give them a heavy dose of “rose food”, and hope for the best…..As soon as the weather is warm enough for me to bring them out….out they go…..It’s like a miracle…..the webs and the bugs disappear, and new shoots start to grow……This spring they are just bursting with new shoots and tons of roses!!!! I couldn’t be happier! As a matter of fact the photo in the middle at the bottom….is a new rose tree that started to grow from one of the originals trees last summer. One day, last summer, I saw this new  [what almost looked like a small twig with leaves] growing out of the dirt…..When it was big enough I dug it up and transplanted it. It looked pitiful in the house this winter , but I wasn’t giving up on it…..The minute I brought it outside all new shoots started to grow and it’s filling out nicely…..On top of that a new shoot sprung up out of the soil, and it too is growing in leaps and bounds……However, I’m not going to transplant this one. I will just let it grow and be happy with its’ Momma…….All of the trees must be very happy!!! They are all doing so well……They are wonderful reminders of our anniversary……………HAPPY ANNIVERSARY to JAC and ME!