My best friend got married and moved out west right after she graduated. Bring in best friend #2. This was in TN. We met in college at the pool tables. She was straight but very much a redneck woman! She used GD every sentence and I'd NEVER heard a woman talk like that before in my life. LOL course life had only been 18 yrs at that point. We hit it off right from the start. We camped, partied, rode the mountains, went to Parksville and Knoxville and Chattanooga partying at every bar we stopped at. We chose our classes to be Tue/Thur classes so we'd have 4 days a week to party. We spent almost every night together somewhere either her parents house or my parents house or throwing out lounge chairs and sleeping bags somewhere in the mountains. At the time I cooked at a place in the am and was the bartender at night down stairs in the same place. Many nights we threw the sleeping bags on the dance floor and slept in the bar.We had the same name and it was hilarious when the phone would ring in the early AM and my dad would come to the door open it both of us sit straight up in the bed, and he says,--------telephone and at the same time we'd say which one, he'd say GD it I don't know just one of ya answer the phone! LOL Eventually my parents moved and we got a rental place on the TN river. Those were the times of our lives. As you that know me can imagine, my love of fishing and back then partying. We invented stuff to cook, the local bars were always full of construction workers and there was always a singer. If someone asked her to dance and she for whatever reason didnt want to be out there she'd motion and I'd cut in and finish the dance with her LOL. We sang, we had similar religious beliefs, we were just having fun being rebellious as we were both raised so strictly. Then she moved back to her parents after about 3 yrs and married a guy from there. We still touch base occasionally, but we certainly had a blast finishing growing up together. I tell people I was raised in SC, but I grew up in TN, but that is another story all together in my journey in the school of hard knocks.
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