I just wanted to chime in here, and give everybody else a bit of backstory.
Audrey-if you get mad at me... pull my hair..heh.
Audrey and I met in middle school.. around age 11 or 12.. we were inseparable from that point forward. It was a group of us girls.. me, Audrey, Tonya, Dawn, Kim, Theresa, Bonita and Kathy. Well ya'll know how I turned out, Tonya ended up.. well.. in a very bad place.. and as I see her still wandering the streets of town at all hours of the night, she obviously still is in the bad place. Dawn married a career military man.. a handsome Puerto Rican that she calls Papi... ugh.. *Papi this and Papi that.. and Papi says this and Papi says that* (Yeah sometimes I wanna kill Dawn). Kim is a school teacher now, Bonita is a mommy like me, and Theresa...well Theresa felt her life's problems were to much, and we lost her some years ago. Kathy moved off and we havn't heard from her since Sophomore year.
When we got into highschool, our lives took on different directives, obviously. I got into band, drama, and sports.. the others took on different activities as well.
Audrey is a a super intelligent gal, witty and articulate and I always loved her..but, I assure you, if there's bad luck afoot, or a shaft to get.. Audrey is going to get it.
She met and married her other 2 husbands, and as men do, they changed. It's all lobsters and roses, till the wedding ring is slipped on, then it's evil man syndrome.
She has been down, but never out..She's lost babies..Her mom died.. then her dad.. she's battling an evil woman who says shes entitled to it all and is selling it all off..I cry for her alot over all of this.
But in the midst of all this.. she met Jose. I was a bit skeptical, cause frankly.. Audrey has some crappy luck in the menfolk department. I met Jose, I hear her speak of him. She has never been like this.. ever. I thank the stars he tends to her and Martine (Martin.. is that right? Spelled like Martin, but pronounced Mar-teen) and Sylvina, my bootiful GodDaughter.
When she came down for the rabbits, she was a different soul.. a happier one. After she left, even my husband said *I have never seen her like that.. maybe shes finally getting her come-uppance*
It does my heart good to see her happy, and to hear her call me INCESSANTLY (yanno I don't mind, I am just funnin ya) to go on and on about the bunnies she got from me.
I do think fate,karma or whatever had a plan for us to always be friends..I graduated in 1990, I met my husband in June of 1990 right after graduation,after I left HS I really had my own life, because I married a much older man, and we kinda made a life together based with his friends, and I made new ones of my own. I guess in a sense I left my *childhood ways* behind. We moved off to Houston, we did not come back to town till after my youngest son was born.. in 1998.. so essentially 9 years go by since I spoke with Audrey, or had even seen her. I was trying to call my cousin one day, I was trying to recall the number from memory. I was wrong. I dialed a wrong number. The lady on the other end told me I had a wrong number, then, since caller ID was so hot and new then, she could see my name and number She said *excuse me, but is this Carroll, the girl who graduated in 1990?*.. yes it is.. who is this.. this is Audrey.. I have been looking for you...I burst into tears and told her that I had been looking for her too...
And now here we are.. bunny people... bunny dorks...
Love ya girlie.. but I still do NOT have hat hair..