While cleaning up the closet and organizing the stuff:
I came across trillion photos in a box and albums, jam packed with smallerthanthistownamerica's school memories of redhead, boy, giggly friend, roomie and sundry other friends.
There are so many redhead firsts in here - there's the one where the redhead drank for the first time, there's the one of redhead voting democrat for the first time, there's the one where the redhead bought her first rat, the one where clinically aloof redhead and I hugged for the first time (though we were technically inebriated),
there's the one of boy and redhead going on scariest roller coaster in the world, while I look nauseously away
There's the one with the funnest swedes in the world at the international fairs - they came but for one semester but got us to party and carouse like crazy for many more
there's the one of the whole crazy lot of us who worked in smallerthanthistownamerica's PBS station - where we made mad music videos of the song whose name nobody knows,
There's the one where the boy and I go for our first vacation together to moutainresortishtown, where it rained all weekend but didn't stop us from going out and doing fun
and on and on
Redhead, Boy and I look so young in pics.
Slightly misty eyed now because of realisation that while I was being angsty, we grew old together.
Wow.
The Boy and I grew old - older together.