Friends among Women
Growing up I was not in the “IN” crowd, nor was I popular. The majority of my grade-school years were spent at a Catholic school. I remember classmates as far back as first grade but a best friend or even good friends I had very few. My first memory of a best friend was in fourth grade. I had one for fourth, and fifth. Then I had a couple of friends in sixth, and seventh but no best friend. Actually I wasn’t really liked much at all, in sixth and seventh grade. Thinking back on it, seventh was my hardest, I was what would be considered today, bullied. Some of the girls put my school shoes in the toilet while I was at P. E. I was made fun of, and a whole host of other things, I don’t care to remember, throughout all of seventh grade. Eighth grade was a bit better, the two queen bees that led the girls the years before, had left the school and I bonded with someone. We were like Laverne & Shirley (we ev...