"Gus" > wrote in message
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> On Sun, 22 Jun 2014 17:32:52 -0400, jmcquown >
> wrote:
>
>>On 6/22/2014 4:46 PM, sf wrote:
>>> On Sun, 22 Jun 2014 14:58:22 -0400, jmcquown >
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Hindsight is 20/20. Most of the time if I try something I fondly
>>>> remember from years ago I'm sorely disappointed.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Me too. Then I wonder if I've changed or it has... which really
>>> doesn't matter because the dynamic isn't the same. Case in point: I
>>> moved from Michigan to California when I was a teenager and madly in
>>> love with a boy. I returned two years later to visit my grandparents
>>> and he dropped by. He was everything I remembered. So cute, so
>>> romantic (making up short poems on the spur of the moment) - but
>>> nothing resonated. He hadn't changed. Poor thing was in a catch 22.
>>> If he *had* changed I would have faulted him for that. He just
>>> couldn't win.
>>>
>>>
>>LOL I saw my high school boyfriend again (once) when I was in my 30's.
>> I grew up, he didn't. We went out for a friendly dinner. (OB Food:
>>Art Pieroni's Restaurant. Great Italian food. Didn't last more than a
>>couple of years.) All he could talk about was how we never should have
>>broken up. Dude, it was high school. (Fact is I was pretty well bored
>>with listening to him play the piano - he figured he'd be the next big
>>rock star). He called me the day after we had dinner. I was sick in
>>bed with a miserable cold. I really did feel horrible. When I told him
>>I didn't feel like talking (sound familiar? but I really was sick) and
>>I'd call him back he got all huffy. He drove home the reminder of what
>>a selfish guy he really was. Nope, you can't go back.
>>
>>Jill
>
> My brother worked at a McCrory's. We used to pick him up, my dad and
> me.

We have one here but I don't know if they are related. Probably not.