Where Are They Now (2)

Some of the people that I knew have just vanished, and some have not.  I have found some of my former schoolmates on Facebook, actually quite a few, and we correspond through our posts.  Some of them that I may not have known well have become friends, and I am grateful to Facebook for the opportunity to know them.  Occasionally, I will get a message on Classmates.com from someone that I knew in school or lived in Southview or both.

My ex-husband Mike, the woman beater, died in September of 2015.  I was a little shocked at that, in a way, but in a way, I wasn't.  He had some kind of issues going on health-wise for a while.  The last time I saw him in 2006, he didn't look completely healthy.  Maybe it was his second family that took a toll on him, finally having to be responsible must have been hard on him, but more on that subject in a different post.

My boyfriend David is still around, and there will be some posts regarding him later on.  He never remarried and still lives in Virginia.  I talk to him frequently.  He is not a techie, so there is no texting or email between us.  He just recently got a cell phone and has no idea how to text or use his voicemail.  He just discovered that he has a camera.  Geez.

David's brother Jimmy, who babysat me while David was in Vietnam, died from colon cancer when he was about 52.  I actually found his name listed on The Veterans' Affairs National Gravesite Locator when I tried to rule out that David might have passed away.  That was in 2007.

My ex-boyfriend Steve lives in Florida, and we are in touch by phone, text, and email.  He found me on Classmates.com in 2007 and contacted me.  He is just as sweet and nice as he was back in the day.  And still cute.  He has those Barry Manilow eyes.

My friend Judy currently lives in Georgia.  She has a grown daughter and is married, for a very long time, to her second husband.  We are going to try and see each other this summer if everything goes well.  It took Judy and me a few years to finally connect.  I had started looking for her at the same time that I was looking for Shelley.  At one point, I saw her name on a Yahoo account that I had but rarely checked.  By the time I saw it and responded, her email address was no longer valid. Eventually, we caught up with each other on Classmates and then on Facebook.

MD, one of the Marines, now lives in Ft. Worth and is retired from Uncle Sam.

And that is about all of the folks that I know about for that period of time, other than my family, which will require future posts.

If I had it to do over again, I would have been more diligent in keeping up with people.  I regret not doing that. I never considered for a minute that one of my friends would have met such a tragic end.  Don't forget anyone that means something to you; treasure that relationship.