Many years ago I went to UConn and met a group of my sisters friends. Fun people. Then, I went my separate way and went to two other colleges, met my own friends. As life proves to be cyclical, so too I am finding, are friendships.
The UConn group experienced a rift, a split between my sis and another girl in which that group took the other girls side sending my sis off spinning and feeling hurt and disheartened by the idea that friendships, like many things, can one day decide to fail. So, too, did another girl who briefly joined this group, experience a sudden, fierce, and cold turn away from her. Why? Both my sis and friend have their theories. The truth? I've been lucky to learn that after several years...the truth is irrelevant, immature, and long, long gone.
My BF, Eric, has always remained true to both sides of that overdramatic and silly rift. Now, dating him, I've finally met this group as not some one's little sister, but as a significant other, who hoped very much to be significant to this group also.
I was truly exasperated, and all kinds of pleased at how warm everyone has been. One girl in particular, once notorious for her ability to ignore people in groups, making them feel less than welcome, has come to me with open arms and a clean slate. A clean slate that she believed was soiled long ago by one person in particular who wreaked negative havoc where ever she went. In other words, all is gone, all is forgotten. People are happy in their lives and all the menial things that happened years ago that can't even be remembered today have been absolved. Yay! Let the good times, and good friends, keep rollin'!
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