Father Epps Blog

I attended my high school reunion once of many, many years since graduation. Having not lived there since graduation, I didn't know these folks either. One exception occurred, but I hadn't seen him either since we were 14. Many names were still familiar, but no faces, and not even those you may have played football or baseball with remembered each other.
I concluded that there is no difference in this situation at the reunion and in the situation as it was in high school, if the kids you really knew well had been there you would have had much to discuss---but they weren't in my case---just one. As I did, those guys and gals had left the community and never returned to live there.
The lawyer's sons, etc., were still there--most of the gals married and gone--but most others had skedaddled.

I think Father Epps is correct in that he had more to talk about with a friend who was an adult when they met, than a friend he hadn't seen since childhood.
We had few serious thoughts in those old days! But, I think we would like to know if we did as well as the class president! (That depends, for me, he was a dentist!).