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I wasn't going to go. $75 seemed like a lot of money to spend on a night with people I didn't remember hearing about lives I had long forgotten about. Plus, Covid. But I went to a pre-event at a bar and was encouraged to show up, so I did. It was a lot of fun.

Nice people, reminiscing about forgotten events. They had left the pettiness and insecurities I remembered behind and the geeky men had grown into their ears and noses and become quite handsome. The women were all sizes, mostly a bit larger and seemed quite happy and comfortable in their bodies. I met up with a childhood friend with whom I shared 45 records and teen magazines when I was probably 9 years old. There was a group of us who lived "across the pike" from the elementary school, which was overcrowded, so we went to school in the basement of the local Baptist church. That's where I met my first crushes, who both were there and admitted that they too had crushes on me. So funny.

Being on this site, I was a bit nervous about any creepy stuff happening, but I didn't perceive any. It was fun and lighthearted and they played great music and the food was good.

Class of about 550, unfortunately about 80 of us didn't live till 2022.
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I'm happy to see that you went and had a nice time . Thanks for sharing !!

Class of about 550, unfortunately about 80 of us didn't live till 2022.

WOW! That's a LOT. What was the turnout for the reunion?

My class was only @120 (small Catholic all-girls school). I think we've lost about 4 that I know of. But the difference is, I knew everyone in my class. With a class of 550, I mean, how well did you really know that many of them?

My 45th is next year. Not sure I want to go. It would involve travel to Houston, and if I'm traveling these days, it's to the East Coast to see my grandson (going back in a couple of weeks!), or to some place we've never been (going to Crater Lake National Park in late Sept.). After losing two of my favorite cousins in the last year and a half, I just have no desire to go down there anymore.

Glad you had a nice time!!

My graduating class was huge -- over 1,000. It's amazing to me that several of my class members still get together twice a month! Once for lunch and once for dinner. I go to those occasionally. It's always fun to catch up. We lost several to Covid. Now several classes have started holding reunions together. I haven't went to one in quite a while.

I was in a January class, and it was under 50. We combine with the June class that was about 150-175. IIRC, I was with 14 kids from 4th grade through HS, and 7 from 2nd grade through college (the couple of people who joined us in 3rd and 4th grade didn't go to the same college that the group of 7 did).

Not long after Covid hit, a couple of techies in academia started quarterly Zoom meetings, and they've been a blast.

We were our HS's Class of 1962. Our face-to-face 60th is scheduled for the Spring or '23.

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The last reunion I went to was the 20th. Someone said, 'I was afraid to come because I was such an asshole in HS, and I thought everyone would remember that.' Someone else replied, 'We were all assholes in HS.'

We all grew up to be pretty nice people.