Robin Bates:  

HELLO TO ALL OF MY OLD FRIENDS, WOW WHAT GREAT TIMES WE ALL HAD THE LAST YEAR IN HIGH SCHOOL, CLASS OF "79", SINCE THEN , I WAS MARRIED FOR 14 YEARS, AND NOW DIVORCED, AND SORRY TO SAY, AND HATE IT,NOW DISABLED, FROM A MESSED UP BACK SURGERY, LONG STORY, BUT I CAN WALK, JUST A BOTCHED UP BACK SURGERY , GONE VERY WRONG, I HAVE 3 CHILDREN, 1 IS A FIREFIGHTER IN GEORGIA, HE IS 21, MY SECOND IS 19, HE IS STILL OUT THERE, NOT KNOWING WHAT DIRECTION HE IS GOING TO GO IN, AND THEN MY PRINCESS, SHE IS 12, MY LIFE, MY BEST FRIEND, I STILL LIVE IN VENICE, AND MY CHILDREN GRADUATED AT VENICE HIGH , JUST LIKE ME, LONG, LONG TIME AGO, SO MUCH HAS CHANGED, OH HOW WE GROW UP AS TIME GOES ON, SOME OF OUR BEST FRIENDS HAVE PAST ON, AND SOMETIMES I SAY TO MYSELF, OH HOW LUCKY WE ARE TO HAVE SUCH BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN, AND STILL BE ABLE TO SEE OUR CHILDREN GROW, AS THE OTHERS THAT ARENT SO LUCKY TO BE ABLE TO WATCH THEIRS, MY BEST FRIEND IN 1996, WHOM I WENT THRO...Expand for more