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June 13, 2005

The Unofficial WHS '90 15-Year Reunion

My long-time friend Mary Weiner (nee Renn) threw a barbecue in my honor at her place in Madison Valley yesterday. She and her husband, Erich, got crazy on the grill and put out a bunch of chicken, beer, mai tais and salad.

When I say "long-time", I mean that Mary and I have known each other since seventh grade; we were both swimmers, and swam for our respective genders when we got to Woodinville High School. As honors brats, so got to see a whole lotta one another as we grew up. We reconnected, quite by accident, at a wedding for a mutual friend in '97 or '98, and have stayed up ever since.

Despite the fact that we've got oodles of good friends from college and whatnot that we chill with, for some reason the invite list for the BBQ skewed toward other Woodinville High people. So, at one, point, Mary's next-door-neighbor, Marla, had asked enough of us - me, Mary, Amy, Guy, Mike - how we knew one another that she exclaimed, "Oh, my God! It's like your 15-year-reunion around here!"

And damn if she wasn't right. We all graduated in June 1990.

After all of us turned an appropriate shade of crimson (and had the "oh, Jeez, that means we're all well in to our thirties!" moment), we got to talking a bit more about the wild and crazy stuff of the past decade and a half.

But ... 15 years since graduation? (Jeez, that means I'm well in to my thirties!)

Posted by Gavin Shearer at June 13, 2005 2:31 PM. Posted to Cool.

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