Ethie contacted me last month to relay the news that Lorraine Tortessi Reilich had recently passed away (see post of November 22 if you missed the entry about Lorraine). With this sad reminder that life is just way too short and opportunities that come our way may not come our way again, we set the date of December 8 to meet for lunch in my town of Morgan Hill.
So on that stormy, rainy day, Ethie braved the elements and drove south to meet me at Rosie's at the Beach, a seafood place popular with the locals, and which isn't actually AT the beach, but close enough, for a lunch of sea bass and LOTS and LOTS of catching up - about 45 years worth.
What we decided: the 45th reunion was the one where we REALLY needed name tags, Ethie and I had led seemingly parallel lives in California without even realizing it (one startling revelation after the next) and having grandchildren truly is one of life's greatest blessings. And a whole bunch of other stuff!
Our waitress took this photo for us (Gale to waitress: "Would you take a picture of us please? We went to the same high school together back in Colorado." Ethie to waitress: "Yes...about 10 years ago!" Way to lie like a rug, Miss Ethie :) )The time passed amazingly fast - way too soon it was time to head back to our separate lives with promises to do this again soon and get our hubbies to join us for the next outing. (We learned they'd both worked for the same company - in this HUGE Bay area, what are the chances of THAT?!!! Parallel universes...)
So - back soon to still more photos on this blog from the class reunion...in the meantime, if you have photos or stories - or both - that I can post on the blog, please e-mail them to me. Please note that I have a new e-mail address..it's galehooverhammond@yahoo.com. I would love to hear from you - and I know the rest of our classmate friends from the Class of '65 would, too. Take care everyone :)
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