by Eva Nichols

Created on: June 02, 2009

Sitting on the patio, Annie, her best friends Carolyn, and Diana talked about what it was like growing up in a little town named High Point. They all were reaching the very old aged of sixty-five, yet they are still able to take care of themselves without needing their families to do so. They decided to all lived together in Annie's two-story house on the edge of town. The three of them, shared a lifetime of memories, happiness, and some sorrows.

From grammar school, all the way to college they were insatiable. All of them married their high school sweethearts; all but Diana ended their marriage in divorce. Diana's husband accidentally killed himself in a hunting accident during the Labor Day weekend. He had laid his rifle near a rock; accidentally tripped over the rock, the gun went off piecing him in the side. By the time, his hunting friends had gotten him to the hospital he had bled to death. Diana cried for days, she was a young widow left to raise three children by herself. Diana was grateful she had her family and two girlfriends to help her through the rough days.

Carolyn laugh out loud as she said, "Annie, remember when you fell in Mister Johnson water pond trying to get one of those goldfish". Annie replied, "Girl, I came home all muddy and wet; my Mother was so mad at me, I thought I would be grounded for a month". They all chortle of the sight of Annie walking home from Mister Johnson's house with mud, leaves, and grass in her red hair. Annie's family had money; her father owned the largest drugstore in Highpoint. Her mother was a descendant of the first family of Highpoint, who came over from the Mayflower. All of the women in her family were Mayflower daughters; they were socialites, being prim and proper had to be maintaining at all times. Annie, on the other hand, as a young girl had tomboyish ways. She did not like the idea of wearing dresses, having her hand curled, and sitting with her legs crossed looking like a little woman. She liked wearing jeans, tee shirts, and her hair cut in a short hairstyle. Her boyish behavior infuriated her mother to the point when she was ten-year-old she had to take some classes on how to be a classy woman at Miss. Barbara Harris Finishing school. Annie hated her mother for putting her in that school, as well as ballet, violin lessons, and becoming a Debutant when she was in high school.

Carolyn was the opposite of Annie; she enjoyed wearing dresses and wearing her hair in pigtails. She was a lovely woman; when she was a young girl, every boy in town wanted to be her boyfriend. Annie asked Carolyn, "Do you remember that boy named John Barrett?" Carolyn replied, "Oh he was the guy who had bad breathe and had a crush on me. They all laughed, Carolyn said," Girl, the boy's breathes smelled so bad the flies start swamping around him when he opened it." Diana could not stop snickering, she had laughed so hard, and her wig had turned completely around. Annie looked at her and stated, "Girl, look at your wig?" Carolyn almost fell out of her chair laughing at how Diana was looking with her blonde wig all twisted. Diana opened the door and went in the house; she had not laugh so much in years. She always chuckled when the three of them talked about their childhood memories. "Those were good times", she thought to herself. If only time could have stopped, and they were that aged again. Those were the best years of their lives. It was their most formative years and the most wonderful childhood memories.

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