Cheers To You!

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This husband and I…

Went to Hardee’s for that strawberry lemon biscuit but nostalgic me ordered the hot ham and cheese instead…an homage…a tribute…in tasty celebration…to days gone by…

College days…the 1980s days…days of friendships…fun…and hope for the future…

College me had two majors…Elementary Ed and Vocal Music Performance…two fantastic friend groups…two different worlds…two different mes…

Dorm room me…teacher friends…artist friends…meet up at the cafeteria and eat together friends…fun…kind…lifelong…the best of the best…

Music me…theory class friends…choir friends…accompanist friends…one accompanist friend to be exact…who played piano for singing me…sweet…delightful…talented…aptly named Melody…

Who lived off campus…and once a week on Wednesdays…we’d meet at Hardee’s in the Union for supper…and music me always ordered the Hardee’s hot ham and cheese with fries…

A year of Wednesdays…a year of Hardee’s…a year of hot ham and cheeses with that talented piano player friend of mine…

And so we lift a glass…or in this case a sticky melty sandwich…and say a toast…or in this case a warm squishy bun of a sentiment…to friendship…

That smorgasbord of friendships we are so lucky to have…high school…college…work friends…neighbors…who most don’t know each other…but they know us…

Like pieces of a quilt…friendship the tie that binds…here’s to you, my dear friends…cheers…

Life would not be the same without you…
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And those daughters of mine…agree…