February 28, 2025

"Make new friends, but keep the old. One is silver & the other is GOLD."

Best friends for an incredible 60 years!! Leslie and I met in 3rd grade in Miss Meyer's Quilt Club. On Wednesdays at Jefferson School in Maplewood, NJ, we brought our lunch to school and quilted. (Imagine little hands sewing together colorful squares of fabric.)

Leslie was intrigued by my lunches, which she said were "so Betty." (My Mother.)

"They would be these little rolled-up pieces of lunch meat with a toothpick, a bag of carrots or something else healthy, and an apple, or something else healthy. I'd bring something like bologna slapped into a hard roll and a Twinkie or Yodel."

After posting the photo on FB, someone who shared our beloved Maplewood childhood put up these shots:


These are from our Jefferson School yearbook. (Who even thought we had one??!?) Leslie and I look like we're babies! We share so many memories.

Wrote my friend Z, my other BFF: "The power of friendship is glorious." 






 

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