As hard to believe as it is, this coming weekend the East High Angels Class of 1988, of which I belong, will get together to celebrate our 20th high school reunion. Because our Alaska trip is right around the corner and doing both would really stretch our funds, I won’t be attending however.
Who Will Be There?
But I was curious who all will be there. The cool thing is I don’t have to go to know. As so many things are these days, there’s a list of people who’ve registered for the reunion online.
They’re Married?
Another neat thing is for the girls of our class who married and changed their names, it shows their maiden names. (The ones the rest of their classmates would remember them by.)
There have been some surprises on that front. (In addition to showing who’s coming, the site lets classmates enter profiles with info such as where you live, what work you do, if you’re married, and whether you have kids.)
Some girls I expected to be married aren’t. Some of the boys I never expected to settle down have –and have two or more children. But the biggest shock was how many classmate couples there are.
Sweethearts: Then, But Not Now and Vice Versa
I presume every school has at least one. That perfect couple. He may have been captain of the football team, she may have been head cheerleader. They started dating as sophomores and were inseparable there after. Theirs was a life destined for marriage, babies, a white picket fence, and a happily ever after.
Maybe you know them in a different scenario, but whatever it was, they were your school’s or class’s “it” couple.
There were two couples I remember, one two grades ahead of me and one in my class. I don’t know what happened to the former, but the later…they both married other people from our class! That was weird to find out.
But it was also weird to see there were at least three other classmates who are now married to former classmates –even though I don’t remember them being items back then. (Although, they could’ve been. They all ran with the same crowd, one I wasn’t part of.)
Wayne’s Ex Girlfriend
Speaking of former items, Wayne’s ex girlfriend will be there. The girlfriend before me. The one who broke his heart. The one I met a year after the heartbreak happened because her locker was next to mine and she was dating my ex. The one who introduced Wayne and I. She’s married (not to my ex) and has two kids. It would be good to catch up with her again.
Old Boyfriends
And then there’s some of my old boyfriends. Can’t help but wonder about them. (Yes, there were a couple before, though none near anywhere as serious as, Wayne.)
Most of them I’d already caught up with anyway. They’re all married and happy. There’s one who remains a mystery, though. He was a romance my freshmen year.
I’ve never been able to track him down and he’s not attending the reunion. I’ve always been curious what happened to him. What great things he went on to do, because I’m sure he did. (Ted Denious, if you ever happen to stumble across this, you’re the mystery man. Zap me an email. I’d love to hear from you and how the last 20 years have treated you.)
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