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Life is like water under a bridge when it comes to all the memories we accumulate in a lifetime.\u00a0 I re-connected with a childhood friend of my children on Facebook which also reunited me with his mother Chris too. \u00a0Our kids met when they were in fifth grade, but life has a way of spinning people away from each other.<\/p>\n
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When I told my eldest son Jamie that I had found his childhood friend Marvin, he contacted him immediately.\u00a0 I arranged a dinner with my son and his wife and invited his friend Marvin to surprise him. \u00a0Marvin and I met just before Jamie and his wife Julie got to the restaurant.\u00a0 I noticed them coming and Marvin got up to open the door for them.\u00a0 I watched my son look at this childhood friend and slowly his memory banks flooded with the realization that he was looking at his dearest childhood friend.\u00a0 It was pure serendipity!<\/p>\n
They began flushing out all the memories that were stored in their brains and it was heavenly to watch this process happen.\u00a0 They told each other how much they loved and admired each other and I knew that they were truly brothers from another mother. It was delicious to hear them talk about all the things that they had done together.\u00a0 Simple things like buying a box of donuts and riding miles to Legg Lake to eat them and watch the world go by.\u00a0 They rode miles on their bikes together and talked about the times we all went to Seal Beach during the summers.\u00a0 It seems so idyllic to me now.\u00a0 Today, it seems like the world is spinning at Mach five, but the memories they made together happened in a much simpler time.<\/p>\n
Kids used their imagination then and knew how to entertain themselves.\u00a0 Playing tag, kick the can, hide and seek, board games, using a yo-yo, playing marbles and having a bat and a ball was the order of the day.\u00a0 If you could have a Coke, a bag of chips, and some penny candy, you felt like you were the happiest kid on the planet!\u00a0 And, earning money to buy a Superman comic book was heaven on earth!\u00a0 Remember when kids made money to buy themselves a treat?<\/p>\n
They could put bikes together using all kinds of parts, and they built ramps to jump their bikes on, and I have the movies to prove it!\u00a0 Evil Knievel was their hero and they imitated him all the time.\u00a0 They could fix or build almost anything and they still have that ability today.\u00a0 But the price of their toys began to increase as they grew up.\u00a0 Does Harley Davidson ring a bell?<\/p>\n
I hope that our dinner together is the first of many happy gatherings in the future.\u00a0 All this proves my point, that love is the answer to everything.\u00a0 And showing it, sharing it and speaking of it is how you fill yourself up.\u00a0 Its soul food and good for anything that might ail you!\u00a0 After all \u2013 it\u2019s your job to make you happy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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