Jan Graham:  

tuation and changed my life dramatically. If anyone at school had known, they would have seen me in a totally different light and would have understood me better. My oldest and dearest friend is Nancy. We met at 15 and it was friendship -real and lasting. We clicked because we liked the same things, she was generous and would do anything for me, supported me without question, and I would her. We kept each other secrets, sorrows, insecurities, heartbreaks, joys and our new loves, and we managed to continue backing each other as each other's biggest fan since. If I could go back once in time, it would be in either Nancy's pinto or my beige vega driving around town with two other boys I won't name, drinking strawberry hill, listening to Johnnt Winter, and driving around the dairy queen. Ah youth What about you would surprise everyone at your high school reunion? I would hope that it would be that I a better, friendlier, kinder person than ever before. My first job was at the shirt factory working 4-8 pm after school, where I got paid 1.85 hr to sew on collars. What I remember most about it is it was a boring, not well paying job. Share a childhood memory you'll never forget. Living on 5th avenue with some of the best childhood friends and adventures a child could ever hope to have. Going to the "big rock" to meet, going fishing under the road through a drainage pipe, putting fresh water oysters in the water meter and they lived for years and got huge. Playing softball everyday all day long, building treehouses, playing army in the wooded area behind our house, so many kids to play with. We got in trouble stealing crabapples, running out in front of cars just to do it, and sneaking out the window at night so we could still play longer. We disected frogs and even put one in a jar half buried so we could watch him decay (yuck!). Our moms made us move him because he began to stink. It was an idyllic childhood- one to treasure forever.