edited by Ame Mahler Beanland & Emily Miles Terry
A book that reminds you to play, be wild, and submit your own chapter!
It also reminds me that I've lost most of my friends. We've all grown up, moved apart, and immersed ourselves in our own lives.
Here's a summary of the friends I now miss!
the "I've Seen You with Braces (hers), Bell-Bottoms (ours) and 80's Hair (mine)" friend: Yvonne
- playing basketball in the rain
- riding around in her car (and getting stopped by the cops) when she had no license
- men, music (Neil Young), and dancing at the Cortland Street Fair
- peach wine (hate peach to this day) and tacos (what were we thinking?)
- shared jeans so tight we had to use pliers to pull them up
- holding her train at her wedding reception, so she could pee
- seeing her holding her child for the first time and realizing, "Oh flip, we grew up!"
the "Wild Woman" : Sara
- sneaking a dirty magazine into the locker room to show brotherless me what a naked man really looked like
- teaching me the rules to strip poker and making me play while in mixed company
- doing what she wanted with who she wanted and awakening me to the idea that the word judgement shouldn't be in any one's vocabulary
- buying me the book 200 reasons Why a Cucumber is Better Than a Man for my 16th birthday (funny as hell...wish I could remember what happened to it...)
- crazy pranks
my Bestest Friend: Criss
- slumber parties
- poem books
- sneaking out/getting caught
- perverted cheers
- secrets
- our own adventures in babysitting
- passing notes
- boy 'stalking'
- skipping school and making spaghetti
the Loyal Friend: Donna
- hiding in our lockers (can you believe we fit?)
- wearing an outfit to school, trading clothes in the bathroom, then going home in our own clothes again
- cheering together
- discussing if we both liked Doug Gatton enough to fight over him
- lending each other a shoulder to cry on no matter what
the Do or Say Anything Friend: Kelly
- dancing at the Red Caboose
- double dating w/ Tim Drass & Dean Rogers and her getting a ticket for running a red light
- her addiction with Deaf Leopard and my most memorable premonition
- the risk of her forgetting you were with her at a party and leaving you there
- loving you no matter what...never caring how you looked, what you wore, or what you said
- riding around in her camero
- dressing flashdance style
the 'what happened to that girl?' friend: Me
- weighing 103 and always worrying about my weight
- always ready for an adventure without obsessing about consequences
- saying exactly what was on my mind the minute I thought it
- never caring that I was the circle that never fit the box
- fuck-me boots, tiny black skirt, and white "sexy" gypsy top confidence
- always in the middle of a group of friends
I wonder if they ever miss me when I'm missing them?
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