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Cheryl Hamer (Hauswirth)
What a wonderful weekend with wonderful people and wonderful memories. For many of us, it was a grade school, junior high, church, or neighborhood reunion as well. We experienced so much together during those growing-up years.
I would like to share a couple of quotations that I think characterize our reunion:
The first is from Floating in My Mother's Palm by Ursula Hegi:
"Though they had wrinkles and gray hair, these women didn't think of themselves as old...because there was always someone who could remember them as girls and ...still saw the child's face."
The second was framed and given to several of us years ago by Julie Dybdal Glesne and is from Sophie's Choice by William Styron.
"There are friends one makes at a youthful age in whom one simply rejoices, for whom one posseses a love and loyalty mysteriously lacking in the friendships made in after-years, no matter how genuine."
A sincere thank you to the Reunion Committee for providing the opportunity through the web site and the reunion events to celebrate that special time and place in our lives and to reconnect in the present.
Go Bears!
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