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What Does This Mean?
Sep. 26th, 2011 10:24 amAn SUV with a giant yellow pumpkin strapped to it's roof just drove past me.
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Sep. 26th, 2011
Writer's Block: BFF
Sep. 26th, 2011 08:52 pm[Error: unknown template qotd]
Umm, about eleven years now. His name is Matt, and I've known him since I was a kid because he was my friend Elizabeth's next door neighbor. He crashed her birthday party two years in a row and my mom saw him hanging out once in front of the Turkey Hill and said to me, "Don't you go hanging around with those teenagers who stand in front of the store all day!". He's a couple years older than I am, so I never saw much of him in school and only knew him as Elizabeth's neighbor for several years. The year Elizabeth died, we were in sixth grade and he was in eighth grade, and he signed my yearbook with his email address. For the rest of middle school he was in the high school, and when I started my freshman year he was a junior and we had no contact whatsoever.
When I got hurt, after I came home but before I went back to school pretty much all I did was go on AIM all night. I had his screen name because I had his email address, and we talked all the freaking time. He had this horrible girlfriend at the time, and I really enjoyed hearing about problems other than my own. So being that we talked every night, we did get to be good friends.
My mom would always tell me that he wasn't really my friend, that the people I talked to online were not real people and didn't really care about me. Even when we started hanging out in real life, she would insist she knew better than me, that he wasn't really my friend. Matt was never into artsy stuff like I was, so it wasn't lime we were inseparable, but he worked in a video store and that summer he would often invite me over to watch movies and drink at his house. His house was the first house I'd been in with my crutches, waayyy before I was any good with them, and it was the first time I'd ever drank alcohol. Later it was the first time is ever been drunk.
And then... Matt went to college. And lo and behold, guess what LJ? We are still friends. I visited him at his college several times, and I decided to go to college in Philadelphia because he was there. We have countless outrageous stories from those days, let me tell you. Then he moved to NY, and while we don't talk on IM every night anymore, and even go months without any contact, we are still friends. We make an effort to visit each other when we can - we meet in NYC sometimes, and I brought Bevan to his house once to meet him. He's been to my house in NJ, and actually he just recently visited me here at my new house.
He's the kind of person who likes everyone. Even though we're from a very stuck up area, he isn't like that at all. He isn't too good for anyone, and he doesn't judge. Of everyone I've been close to over the course of my life, he is the only one who, when I was doing stupid things and messing up my life, didn't judge. I never questioned whether he still wanted to be around me or still wanted to be my friend. Of course we were still friends.
And that's all for tonight :)
Umm, about eleven years now. His name is Matt, and I've known him since I was a kid because he was my friend Elizabeth's next door neighbor. He crashed her birthday party two years in a row and my mom saw him hanging out once in front of the Turkey Hill and said to me, "Don't you go hanging around with those teenagers who stand in front of the store all day!". He's a couple years older than I am, so I never saw much of him in school and only knew him as Elizabeth's neighbor for several years. The year Elizabeth died, we were in sixth grade and he was in eighth grade, and he signed my yearbook with his email address. For the rest of middle school he was in the high school, and when I started my freshman year he was a junior and we had no contact whatsoever.
When I got hurt, after I came home but before I went back to school pretty much all I did was go on AIM all night. I had his screen name because I had his email address, and we talked all the freaking time. He had this horrible girlfriend at the time, and I really enjoyed hearing about problems other than my own. So being that we talked every night, we did get to be good friends.
My mom would always tell me that he wasn't really my friend, that the people I talked to online were not real people and didn't really care about me. Even when we started hanging out in real life, she would insist she knew better than me, that he wasn't really my friend. Matt was never into artsy stuff like I was, so it wasn't lime we were inseparable, but he worked in a video store and that summer he would often invite me over to watch movies and drink at his house. His house was the first house I'd been in with my crutches, waayyy before I was any good with them, and it was the first time I'd ever drank alcohol. Later it was the first time is ever been drunk.
And then... Matt went to college. And lo and behold, guess what LJ? We are still friends. I visited him at his college several times, and I decided to go to college in Philadelphia because he was there. We have countless outrageous stories from those days, let me tell you. Then he moved to NY, and while we don't talk on IM every night anymore, and even go months without any contact, we are still friends. We make an effort to visit each other when we can - we meet in NYC sometimes, and I brought Bevan to his house once to meet him. He's been to my house in NJ, and actually he just recently visited me here at my new house.
He's the kind of person who likes everyone. Even though we're from a very stuck up area, he isn't like that at all. He isn't too good for anyone, and he doesn't judge. Of everyone I've been close to over the course of my life, he is the only one who, when I was doing stupid things and messing up my life, didn't judge. I never questioned whether he still wanted to be around me or still wanted to be my friend. Of course we were still friends.
And that's all for tonight :)