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Oh my - my high school reunion is this weekend! Did anyone go to theirs? Was it fun? I spent about two hours on classmates.com last night and it was a gas. Any advice?

Advice ? Sure ... Drink heavily.

No kidding. Maintain your stupor at all times.

My twenty year reunion is coming up, and I'll probably go. I went to my ten year reunion, and that was surreal. I went to high school in Albuquerque, but at the time of the reunion I was living in Alabama. I picked up an ex-girlfriend/classmate in Mississippi and we drove across the country to New Mexico. That experience was among the strangest I can recall. All of a sudden I found myself paired with someone with whom I was incredibly close ten years earlier, but we hadn't kept in contact since graduation. It's very disorienting to discover how easy it is to fall into some of the same mannerisms and same ways of interacting that you thought you'd shaken off long ago. And during the drive itself, the geography contributed to a bizarre sense of going back in time. The hills and trees and grass slowly gave way to the open desert, and slowly it's all familiar again and it might as well have been 1987.

The reunion itself was relatively painless, but definitely strange. As Craig so wisely suggested, remain medicated. The experience is far too anxiety-ridden to endure sober.

My recommendation is to go and enjoy yourself as much as possible. Good luck!

Oddly, my class has never had a reunion. But, there have been several events where many of us gathered. I've had nothing but positive experiences. Our school was kinda clickish, and I was hardly a part of the "in crowd." Yet, at every gathering, I was warmly welcomed, and respectfully treated by all.

I've been adopted by the class two years behind mine (there were LOTS of cute girls in that class ), and have attended the Friday night "ice breaker" at each of their reunions, which are now being held every five years. I've been warmly welcomed there as well, even though I was not a member of their class.

At this point in our lives very few us haven't experienced both success and failure. It doesn't seem to matter. What matters in the shared experiences of our youth.

The only advice I would give you is just to go with an open mind. The handsome football star, may have no hair and a pot, while the nerdy loser in glasses is now wearing contacts and is an investment banker. Or, vice versa. Ya just never know. I think you'll have a GREAT time. Be sure to let us know how it goes.

Is this a 5 year reunion? Can't be any longer than that!

I do remember at my 20 year reunion one of the ladies attended with her 30 year OLDER companion. She wore a spaghetti strap dress, low cut of course, and had her name badge stuck to her skin.To read her name, in small print, one was forced to study her, hmm....., new assets.

Craigsub - Oddly, I was thinking of doing exactly the opposite! I figured this was one occasion where I would like to know exactly what I am saying! LOL.

bugbitten - although I also have a sugar daddy, the assests came at birth - so everyone's already checked out the nametag ;-)

dmn23 - that's what I was wondering - do you get all weirded out walking past your locker and seeing an old flame? I've got my best friend from highschool as my 'date' so that might aggravate or soothe the problem - hard to know!

ajax - I'm the one who has gone from head cheerleader (oh, the gladiating days!) to computer nerd, so I'm likely to be very sensitive to that particular issue!! LOL.

I just have this crazy optimistic side I guess - I half-think that everyone will have found their niche in the world and everyone will have great things to say about their lives so far. Fingers crossed! It's probably more likely to be just a ton of baby pictures, but who knows? I will definitely let you know!

dmn23

I too went to school in Albuquerque. I graduated in 1986 from West Mesa. What school did you attend?

Jack's class never had a reunion because of all the confusion when years went from "BC" to "AD" ...

Amie - Trust me. Get loaded. You can deny anything you said anyway. Oh - and bring Ian. There is something about a large husband along which will keep people in line.

I just went to my 20yr reunion back in July, wow I can't believe it has been that long since I roamed the streets in my Camaro

West Mesa, eh? Pretty cool. I went to Manzano for a brief time, but then moved to Sandia Prep. Graduated in '88 and moved to the southeast -- eleven years in Alabama, six years in Nashville.

Do you ever go back? The last time I was in town was for the reunion I wrote about above. It seemed like very little had changed, but that might also have been due to the fact that I was wandering around in an emotional and social timewarp anyway.

There was quite a bit of sprawl, though. We lived in the NE Heights up above Tramway, and back then there really weren't many homes up there, or north of Montgomery. I guess I was a little startled to see how many homes had gone up, but beyond that it really seemed like the same old town. At some point, though, the casinos rolled in. I'm not quite sure when that happened, but based on what I read it seems like there's a lot more going on now.