Linda Laird:  

I don't think I have many old friends. I was shy and was picked on at school. I was a daydreamer, hence my love for fantasy stories. I spent most of the ninth and tenth grades cutting classes, getting high and staying away from as many of my peers as I could. I dropped out in the beginning of the 11th grade and started working and have worked ever since. Because of how I was treated in school I didn't trust people and still don't to a degree. I was and still am; or at least feel like an outsider. I hated school and was glad to drop out in '78. One of my most prominent memories of school was having my new winter jacket; a gift from my parents; deliberately burned by a female with her cigarette on the city bus going home one day. Sad that my biggest memory was most likely forgotten by the brat that did it; sad that it hurt me as much as it did; especially since I can't remember the brats name. She was not the only one to treat me like trash, but I did my best to never let anyone know how miserable I was. I got married in CA. in 1981 to a navy man, we separated and I got my GED in '82 when I joined the Air Force. I have lived in Va, Ca, and Del, most of my life, leaving NY as soon as I turned 17. I have a job I love, I am engaged to a wonderful guy and have been divorced twice. I keep in touch with one of my neighborhood friends, she went to S.W. too, we were in the same grade but she was a year younger then me. It might be nice to come to the reunion, however I doubt I would know anybody except one or two of the stu...Expand for more