Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

I love Facebook. I'll admit, that at first, I wasn't that interested in putting up a profile. I really only did it to keep up with my family who live thousands of miles and don't call or e-mail often enough. The comments and photos gave me insight into their current lives in a way that didn't come across over the phone. I was interested in my new sister in-law in particular since I didn't know her very well yet got along with great. In fact some of the similarities between us from appearance to personality are eerily similar. It's strange, but I've noticed that all of my family members have paired with people who are either like one of their siblings or parents or a combination of the two. I would guess that it's because, subconsciously, these mates seem familiar but I'm sure Freud would say otherwise.

Anyways, the best part about this whole networking site has been finding my long lost childhood friends. I've tried throughout the years to find these two sisters who, of course, lived right next door to me growing up, but to no avail. They have the most common last name ever which lead me to many dead end searches. But last night was different. The search came up with over 800 results yet I still couldn't help but look. I figured I would go through just five pages and call it a night if the right match wasn't there. But there she was, I couldn't believe it. She was 13 the last time I saw her but those same dimples and eyes were there, only more defined with age. I went on to check the city and her friends feeling certain that I was seeing what I wanted to see, but I wasn't. Her younger sister's name was there too and now I could finally catch up with them and reminisce about all of the funny things we used to do. (I can't believe we stuffed our training bras with oranges and proceeded to parade around the neighborhood singing Madonna songs. We even named ourselves The Groovy Gals and had "wicked" choreography for her hit Borderline).

I've often wondered what ever happened to these girls I spent a significant part of my childhood with and now I know. There were some surprises but basically who we were then is not so far removed from who we are now. I used to believe that my life would have been much different if my parents had never cruelly moved from that suburban town in New York but now I think that I would have taken an alternate route but ended up at a similar end point.