Melissa Heibel:  

parties at Tammy's house with her ancient, mostly deaf grandmother there to "watch the house and make sure there were no parties." What her parents never understood was, Grandma Guentz needed a walker to get around, and her bedroom was upstairs...you do the math...stairs + walker = never coming down the stairs. The parties were intense, but grandma never knew a thing, being mostly deaf. High school also bestowed another BFF upon me. Anne Hamilton. She was the awkward girl who sat next to me in homeroom. She started talking to me about The Cure and I didn't really listen to her, but she wouldn't stop talking to me, so I decided to be her friend. She beat me up (unintetionally) a few times, and our bond grew. We both had to wait for our moms to pick us up from school way after school was out (no buses, catholic dogma, I guess, buses are a sin). During these hours of waiting at school after it's been out for 2-3hrs, we would talk and be silly together. We had homeroom, several classes, and were both in band together, making us becoming BFF unavoidable. She is still one of my BFFs to this day. I did and still do have other friends from high school, such as Lauren Murphy, Kellie Chinnicci, Erica Daub, Peggy DiMercurio, Christy Schultz, Mike Crump, Matt Beardsley, Erik Gray, and many others I know I'm forgetting because my brain isn't awake yet. I made all kinds of friends in college, but once you get to a certain age, and people move away and come in and out of your life, you tend to keep ties loose. It's sad, but true. I have had lots of close friends who, for whatever reason, I have lost touch with. This goes out to them...I MISS YOU!