{"id":5072,"date":"2015-08-04T03:45:57","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T07:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/?p=5072"},"modified":"2019-05-15T13:48:04","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T17:48:04","slug":"day-28-class-of-77","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/?p=5072","title":{"rendered":"Day 28: Class of ’77"},"content":{"rendered":"

We called ourselves The Crew, by virtue of one of those stories that were very funny in high school but which would take far too long to tell in a blog post and wouldn’t be funny to anyone but us, anyhow.<\/p>\n

I’m not even sure how the six of us became friends: Barb, Bill, John, Ken, Mary and me. We must have had classes together. Probably it was because we didn’t fit into any of the cliques – not the jocks and cheerleaders, not the stoners, not the geeks, definitely not the goody-two-shoes.<\/p>\n

We spent weekend nights and sometimes weekday nights going out in Sandusky and partying. There was not a lot to do for fun, so we amused each other.<\/p>\n

We did the crazy stunts that you do in high school – some of them dangerous, some just stupid – and somehow all six of us graduated and didn’t die in a car wreck.<\/p>\n

After high school, I went away to college and then to work in another part of the state, Ken joined the Navy, and Mary got married; but Barb, Bill and John stayed in the area and stayed friends.<\/p>\n

For years I didn’t have much contact with them. Then in 2012, classmates organized our 35th class reunion, and I came to Ohio, and Bill, Barb and John were there. It was absolutely wonderful to see them again.<\/p>\n

Tonight I spent an evening with Bill, Barb and John, and their respective spouses. Their faces are so beautiful to me, their voices so familiar. I like to watch them and listen to them, remembering what I love about them: their honesty, their thoughtfulness, their humor.<\/p>\n

We still have a good time.<\/p>\n

Here, in honor of the class of ’77 and its friendships, is a penny from the year we graduated:<\/p>\n

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Still looks pretty good.<\/p>\n

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