I am part of a group of 6 long-time friends from high school and we are still very close.

Four of the six, including me, have been close since the 4th grade (1981)

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mysterioso77@reddit

I have several and I even have one from kindergarten!

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lionbacker54@reddit

Lost touch for over thirty years. Reconnected about three years back with some friends. Am trying to reconnect with more

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My best friend from high school is still my best friend. We bought a duplex together and now we’re best friends and neighbors. We have a monthly virtual “book group” where we meet on discord and talk about all the things we’d like to fix in the world. I still talk to and see a few about 5 or 6 others a few times per year. I am really lucky though. We were all geeky theater kids and we trauma bonded in the crucible that was 1980’s high school.

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LetImportant2025@reddit

Me and 7 of my hs girlfriends are going on a trip in June. Last one was 3 years ago.

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anditstonedme@reddit

None. It was all about us being in the same suburban neighborhood and close to same age and riding the bus with them, getting drunk on the weekend, etc.... we all went our different ways after high school

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the_real_MBAPROF@reddit

71 M: I still talk / text with my junior high girl friend, also keep in touch with my high school girl friend. Saw many of my classmates at our 50th reunion back in 2023. Sad to see so many of the classmate have passed away. We had over 700 in our class.

Ok_Traffic_3240@reddit

I'm one of the very lucky ones. I still know, talk to and get to hang out with a group of my mates from school.

We're all in a whatsapp together, 8 of us. get to talk crap and take the piss out of each other every day just like we always have.

I've been to all life's significant events with them, stag parties, baby parties (the boys only ones! We call them wetting the babies head here in the UK), christenings, weddings, birthdays.

When we get together it's banter just like when we were younger.

KaleidoscopeLow9505@reddit

Two. And one of them I married. We celebrate our 40th wedding anniversary in a few weeks 😊

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lostinexiletohere@reddit

I had a daughter with a friend from high school when we were in our mid 20s. Other than that I am friends with our daughter's godmother on Facebook but haven't talked to her since my daughter's mom's funeral in 2017.

I am however really close to several of the guys I was with in the Army. We went to OSUT, then Ft Ord, deployed during OJC. This month was our 39th anniversary of going to OSUT at Ft Benning

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SGReject@reddit

Two. I love them dearly. I consider myself lucky.

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Ok-Patient583@reddit

I have about 6 or so close friends that I went to high school with, and their spouses. In one case my buddy’s wife and I were in the same class from grade 2-13. We still get together a few times a year and plan longer trips every few years even though we’re a country and 3000 miles apart. They are amazing friends.

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Glad_Management_2885@reddit

I have 2 ex-girlfriends from high school that I still talk to on a semi regular basis, everyone else I used to hang with are either dead or incarcerated for forever and a day

Not a single one. I hated high school. And I moved back to my hometown-I generally ignore anyone who tries to strike up a conversation with me because they recognize me from high school. It sort of helps that I don’t look much like I did back then.

Hilariously, I started a new job here, and my boss is, I think, the elder brother of someone I went to school with. I’ve not brought it up.

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allbsallthetime@reddit

Does my wife count? We still have a close relationship 45 years later.

We went to the same school so we have friends that we both know. Not sure you'd call it close but we do talk regularly and meet up at least once a year. We can count on them if we ever needed something.

Our 41 year old daughter has several close freinds from high school that she socializes with regularly.

My mom had one friend from school that she kept in touch with her whole life. She lived to be 85ish.

To my knowledge my dad did not have friends from high school but he had some good friends from his youth that he kept in touch with.

None, I moved 1000 away and never looked back.

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Ok_Garden571@reddit

I didn’t have any friends in high school. I had an evil boy who kept me from having friends because I wouldn’t be his girlfriend when I was 12 years old and I wouldn’t have sex with him. Going to school for me was like going to hell every day.

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MaximumJones@reddit

Ok, now that bans have gone out for people who just HAD to interject politics in violation of Rule 7 this post is now re-opened.

If your comment even hints at politics you will be banned. You will not get this thread locked, you just will not post here anymore.

Thanks everyone for your responses, they are very interesting to read.

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Rabidtrout@reddit

None outside of my wife... Grew apart, different political views.. Moving away was also a pretty big killer.

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iftheygivinitaway@reddit

I have one good friend from high school, but still only talk maybe once a month.

I had another good friend but we kind of drifted away as his life took a weird turn a few years ago. He's the outgoing head of ICE . . .

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zionzednem@reddit

I have buddies from junior high, high school and college I’m in touch with. Life doesn’t make it easy to see each other with frequency but we do get together and it’s like no time has passed.

Lost some friendships with those who maintained close minded ignorance and this was happening before current politics… sad but you have to move on sometimes.

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starjammer69@reddit

I do. We have a group chat that we use almost daily. We still get together in town at least once a year for those that have moved away.

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bizzylearning@reddit

I only have the one I keep in touch with regularly. We lost touch in college, then re-connected about a decade ago, and it was like no time had passed. Our spouses are awesome, and the four of us get along well. He and his wife live across the continent from us, so we all hardly ever get together. But we all chat regularly and keep in touch. When we are going to be within a few hundred miles of each other, we make a point to loop around and get together.

We're happy doing whatever - dinner on the back porch, sit and drink mead and catch up, hit up a local event if there's something fun happening.

But it's mostly memes and updates on our own independent adventures, encouraging each other, that kind of stuff.

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Best-Sea-3592@reddit

I wish I did... It's been 30 years since i graduated and moved away. I am in contact with 2-3 people but we are not close. I wish I was but i was not much of a social butterfly back then either.

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I still have a pretty tight group from that era. We all pretty much moved to the coasts and none are in the same town, but we still talk regularly.

I also have local friends, though not as many, and am on a first name basis with a surprising number of people in my neighborhood. I am apparently friendly and approachable.

I am also a total introvert, but I guess also a pretty good small talker. People just talk to me, and I always eventually ask their names to keep my almost 60 mind sort of sharp.

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None, and it’s not one of my regrets.

(Different strokes, respectfully.)

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IndyColtsFan2020@reddit

It wasn't a regret for me for a long time. But as I've gotten older, I think I made a mistake by not socializing more and maintaining friendships. Right now, the only person I have who lived through those times with me and had similar experiences is my brother. It would be nice to have others to reminisce with every once in awhile.

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EvolutionCreek@reddit

That’s fair. I do have one childhood friend like that (pre-high school).

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BackLopsided2500@reddit

I have two friends from High School but we don't keep in touch very much. One has health problems and I miss him a lot 😔

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selftaughtgenius@reddit

I am still very friendly with a bunch of my high school friends but we aren’t close any more. I mean, I’d still pour my heart out to them if there was reason to but it’s we’re not in frequent contact.

My husband on the other hand is still exceptionally close with many friends from elementary and high school. Like, we just went camping with 30 friends and their kids last weekend, and this group has been doing that every May and Sept long since the mid 90s.

I moved every year or so; husband has been in the same province for his entire life. I suspect that’s part of it but he’s really just a great friend.

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tkingsbu@reddit

There’s about 7 of us that get together about twice a year. Christmas party and a summer weekend cottage party.

I’m incredibly grateful for that… it’s pretty special.

There’s another friend that goes back even a little further to like, grade 3… I visit him even more often… every time I head back to my hometown to visit my mom, I always include a night hanging out with him.

In a small Canadian town, he was pretty much the only other kid that had the same interest in art that I did.

We had a friendly rivalry for all our school days… never mean or envious… but if he did something artistic, I’d be inspired to ‘one up’ him, and same went for him… we inspired each other.

Flash forward to today, I’m the creative director at a software company, and he’s an actual bonafide artist, with gallery showings, an agent, and rich folk that collect his work…

We both ‘made it’ in our respective art fields.

But the best thing is that we have the same sense of humour, and our hangouts every few months are essentially just us laughing our heads off about shit… sooooo good for the soul :)

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littlescreechyowl@reddit

My very best friend of 38 years, we met freshmen year.

My closest friend group chose my ex boyfriend in the breakup, so bff is my one friend from high school.

I used to have a really solid crew of friends, but at this point, 28 years later, I only see one regularly, and keep in touch with another. The friend I was closest to... we had a falling out, mostly in his inability to mature or adapt to others maturing. He still hangs with the one I see regularly, keeps asking about me, and will grab his phone so he can gawk at my Facebook, but won't accept my friend request, or agree to have a drink whenever I'm in town. His long time girlfriend added me and she's absolutely delightful and awesome, but she can't convince him either to get past the resentment that I succeeded in aspects of life for which he hasn't. And that was the polar opposite of our dynamic in high school. He was the charismatic ladies man and I was an awkward nerd. But as soon as we were about to graduate college 4 years later, that dynamic had flipped. It's such a sad story.

The rest of the crew grew apart mostly because of geography, legal accusations, politics... You know, the usual.

My oldest friend met me when I answered the door completely naked. So I’ve got that going for me. Which is nice.

Yep met my heterosexual life* mate in sophomore year of high school.

thats what he calls it . Lol

I went back to the old home town last weekend. Some friends youngest graduated from the same HS we went to. It's also their 25th anniversary. It was a pretty good party.

And another one who stays in touch even less.

And 1 that I am super close with.

She is actually my only close friend.

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ragingclaw@reddit

I'm still best friends with a person I met in 6th grade. I'm about to turn 46 so that's 30+ years.

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Legitimate-Pirate-63@reddit

My best friend in high school is still my best friend today and we hang out at least once a week. I hope to continue doing stupid shit with him for a long time.

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crazyplantlady007@reddit

Same bff since 5th grade when I moved to my hometown. (I was 11, am 51 now.) We live one street away from each other. She is my emergency contact on my medical forms.

We both met her husband in HS and we all graduated together. They are still married and their kids are my niblings as mine are theirs. (All our kids are grown now.)

We decided in JR HS we were gonna live beside each other when we grew up and we did.

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ajn3323@reddit

Core group of friends re- connected in the early days of Facebook. Since then we try to get together every or every other year: skiing, wineries, Vegas etc. No golf unfortunately. I haven’t joined them on a trip for a couple years.

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EducationalOutcome26@reddit

one I interact with regularly, one less regularly but thats more due to his bizarre EMS work schedule and my constantly on the road construction management lifestyle , and one infrequently but still close friends, life gets in way, he was my best man at my wedding and we were each pallbearers at the others parents funerals.

the rest, dont see em, keep up on a few thru facebook , thats it.

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PretendJournalist234@reddit

Dill Ave in Linden NJ has a group of guys that grew up there in the 70's and still talk to each other every once in a while.

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Noobitron12@reddit

I only had 3 friends in high school. I mean I talked to everyone else but 3 were close friends

2 are dead and my really best friend I haven’t talked to since high school really

Dalearev@reddit

None it’s incredibly depressing, but it is what it is. I still keep in touch with two girlfriends from high school, but I wouldn’t really call them close anymore.

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Infinite-Floor-5242@reddit

Zero. It's liberating.

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Sweaty-Possibility-3@reddit

None. Growing up in a small town in WV. We all left after graduation going into different directions.

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KtinaDoc@reddit

No, I'm not the same person

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cnikkih@reddit

I’m 48, and I still have the same best friend (S) I had when I was 7. I changed schools when we were 10, but we ended up at the same high school, so by 16, we were thick as thieves again. I think the secret to our success is that neither of us are scared of change, so it has been easy to grow together, even when our growth spurts were very different from one another. It’s funny because we don’t see each other often, even though we only live 10 miles apart, but we do everything and anything together. I was at hers for a cookout last week. This weekend, I’m taking her kids, niece, and nephew to the airport because they’ve had a death in the family and everyone is traveling at random times due to schedules. I’m taking care of her grandmother while they are gone. She’s coming to mine for Memorial Day. And then we likely won’t see each other again until August when we work the local fair together all week. We just grab each other whenever we can, you know?

I have one, though technically we've known each other since 5th grade, though we did go to high school together. We live in the same general region, but about 70 minutes drive time apart, so every other month we meet for lunch somewhere halfway in between. I had two high school friends, but the other sadly passed from cancer two years ago.

I do still have relationships with folks I was friends with during my high school years, but didn't go to school with (we were competitive athletes in the same sport).

But, if I'm fully honest, I don't really have any close, pour your heart out, tell them anything, ride or die type friends. Got betrayed too many times in my 20s and 30s and just am not wired that way any more. Good aquaintances, yes. People I care about, yes. But close/best friends? Not so much.

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thingmom@reddit

Nope. I’ve tried hanging out, etc. with my besties from growing up but we have nothing left in common. One friend I really like and could hang with but we never see each other / distance too great. Another I only hear from her when she needs money. Yeah, no.

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Gypsysinner666@reddit

I have 5 including my first girl friend. I also have quite a few marines i served with that i am in regular contact with.

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LAKingSteve@reddit

Close? None really. Still talk to a handful but wouldn’t remotely say close.

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garagedooropener5150@reddit

College, yes.
High school, no.

I was really close with a friend whose mom used to babysit me before I went to preschool. We are the same age with only a 2 day difference. We were inseparable through grade school. His dad was in the Army and the whole family moved away for 4yrs. When they came back, it was 8th grade and we picked up like no one left.

I moved to a different state when I was 11, and I'm still really close with four guys that I went to elementary school with before we moved. We would go back to my old town to visit my dad and other family members several times a year, and I kept in touch with my friends back there and would hang with them when I was in town. Eventually, when we were adults, those guys started driving down to visit me, too. One of them lives near me now, so we hang out once a month or so. The other guys are spread around the country, so I don't see them as much, but we text each other pretty much every day on a group test.

I'm also tight with a bunch of guys that I went to middle school and high school with. We all still live in the same area, so we get together several times a year. I just went to an MLB game with three of them this past weekend.

I've always worked hard to stay in touch with friends. It's worth it!

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OneManLost@reddit

My best friend and I met in '94, we still hang out when we can and will talk or text almost daily. We also play co-op games online all the time, great way to stay in touch.

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Electronic_City6481@reddit

Three dudes that I see on at least an annual basis when people are in town together, and somewhat regular deeper communication past meme sharing. Probably another 3-4 where the comms are a bit less but someone could say ‘let’s go backpacking/fishing’ tomorrow and I’d be there no questions asked and aside from all the catch up on how old our kids are now, who is divorced now, etc it would be like no time has passed

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FantasticPear@reddit

None.

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A friend’s mom said, “I’d rather have four quarters than a hundred pennies,” and that stuck with me.

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JavierLNinja@reddit

Wise woman that was.

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Caliopebookworm@reddit

Close friends? None. I attended a small Christian school and the two people I considered my closest friends wrote me letters after I quit going to church (when I graduated) telling me that they could no longer be my friend because I'd turned my back on God.

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TheSwedishEagle@reddit

I attended a Christian high school, too, and most people were pretty chill then but they have all gotten more conservative over time from what I can tell. Many moved to red states like Texas.

It boggles my mind because in high school I just assumed that, like me, they were there because their parents enrolled them there. Most of them weren't super religious and did normal kid things. Some even smoked, did drugs, had sex, etc.

Now they are all overtly religious and very involved in church which is the opposite of my trajectory.

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Ok-Conversation-7292@reddit

I have 2 bffs fom 1st grade, 1979.

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ConsequenceFeeling96@reddit

Just got back from a weekend trip 4 hrs drive away for my high school bff’s older sister’s birthday party!

Most of husband’s friends are from college days or through mutual hobbies.

Worried_Bullfrog_937@reddit

I'm still best friends with my best friend from high school, but we never see each other because he moved to Europe several years ago, and I'm still in the US. We text a lot, though.

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icanhazkarma17@reddit

My 3 best friends are from summer camp - high school programs that involved multi-week wilderness expeditions. We all live in different states. I went to a boarding school and didn't stay in touch with anyone except a roommate, and we dropped out one year after graduation ('87). After moving away for decades, my wife ('88) and I returned to our hometown (we were born in the same hospital lol). We have high school friends in the area that either never left or returned to raise families like we did. We go to concerts with some of them, and socialize from time to time.

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phinz@reddit

Not me. I escaped about a year after high school and moved 18 hours away. I can count the number of times I’ve been back in 39 years on one hand and I can count the number of people from high school that I’ve maintained contact with on that same hand using the fingers left over and I’d still be able to poke somebody’s eye out with the leftover finger.

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grateful_john@reddit

I have a friend I see during football season - he tailgates with my crew. A few I'm in touch with from time to time and might see once every 6-18 months. A whole bunch of people I don't keep in touch with at all.

I have many more friends I'm still close with from college.

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Sporkalork@reddit

We met the first day of junior high, 1990. We live on different continents now but message all day, every day.

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brendaleetee@reddit

I have a close circle of 5 girlfriends and we’ve all known each other since we were about 10. We went to school together, all the way through. These ladies are incredibly special to me now that we’re in our 50s and we still get together when we can. I realize this isn’t the norm which makes these friendships that much more special.

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Maybe 8? Don’t see or talk to them a lot but we meet up once every five years or so… we live all over the place.

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SenseiT@reddit

Not a single one. In fact, once social media became a thing and I started exploring Facebook I was instantly inundated by friend request from ex-girlfriends or people I used to run with who ended up in jail or living very sketchy lives. It didn’t take long for me to immediately deletep it.

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punkwalrus@reddit

Kind of a strange space.

My best friend from 4th grade, still friends with, but we don't talk much. We should.
My best friend in high school, we do not speak. Probably for the best. I miss them, but... I miss who they were, let's just say, instead of what happened.
One friend from high school we reconnected years later. She's awesome.
I made more friends post-high school with high school graduates after our 20th reunion in 2007. People I didn't hang out with for no other reason than we just didn't. Now we chat on FB.

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Affogoto@reddit

I talk to one of my friends from high school regularly, and a couple others occasionally. My best friend is from my college days, and we visit each other at least twice a year. We speak 3-4 times a week.

These are people I trust implicitly. I’ve made friends throughout my adult life, but most come and go like the wind.

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Sqr-Peg-Rnd-Hole_569@reddit

None

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Financial-Ad-7454@reddit

None from high school. We had nothing in common then, probably have nothing in common now.

godofwine16@reddit

It hurt me when I left for college and hardly anyone from my friend group tried to keep in touch.

When Facebook started in 2006-2007 I reconnected with a lot of my friends and found out most weren’t doing that great so that explains why they didn’t try to keep up. They were too busy with life.

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RMDVanilaGorila@reddit

My friend group consists of 5 guys that I’ve been friends with since 1st grade (1979). Some moved away for school or military but all are now back where we grew up. We meet once a month for breakfast and with the occasional lunch meet up in between. I’ll be 53 in July

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CrazyCatLadyNL@reddit

Not really close, but still in contact with 3 friends via WhatsApp and Facebook. I’ve known them since I was 13 and I’m 60 more.

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MidwestAbe@reddit

None.

Was pondering this as my oldest graduated this past weekend.

Wondering what he will be doing with those kids moving forward. I share much if not all the "blame" for not keeping on with those friendships. And also as of late for not being moved to rekindle them.

I didn't hate high school. But I just have reasons (probably poor ones) for not wanting to talk and be around people I went to school with.

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AppropriateDark5189@reddit

Still friends with a few people. One of my best friends since I was 7yrs old lives almost 2000 miles away but we keep in touch. We've had years where we didn't communicate but he's had some battles with cancer so we touch base frequently. I keep in touch with several other friends from high school and we get together every year or two.

Some of us have traveled the world, some never left the small town we grew up in. We've all grown up but still friends. I also ended up marrying a girl I dated in high school. I was not in touch with her for over 15 years but we started dating when I moved to where she had moved to (long story).

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Twistedanddemented73@reddit

High School, Jr High and Elementary!

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skeeterbmark@reddit

I have 2-3 HS friends that I text with fairly regularly. We’ve been trying to find time to meet for a few year now to no avail.

ChiliSama@reddit

Practically zero…. There’s one I hear from every 10 years or so, and a couple I’ve seen on Facebook. Someone messaged me on Classmates and I didn’t remember them at all.

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DickWhittingtonsCat@reddit

I had 4 close friends in HS and am in regular contact with all. The larger friend group largely dissipated. Its not even steven in engagement across the board.

We aren’t going on trips and shit- but a retiree also doesn’t have little kids to college kids at home.

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reddit_fake_account@reddit

O for me. College is 0 too.

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scrolling4daysndays@reddit

I have two neighborhood friends from about age 9 (50+ years ago) that I still connect with regularly and do trips together every so often and one high school friend that we exchange text messages on holidays/birthdays.

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Commercial-Novel-786@reddit

I recently sat down with a hs buddy a few weeks ago, and I'm in regular contract with another I reconnected with about 8 years ago. Trying to reach a third but am not having any luck.

None are close, but I do value them immensely.

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CazzoNoise@reddit

Zero. They went from good friends to distant acquaintances.

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Embarrassed_Key_4539@reddit

I have one

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4rdv4rk@reddit

Me too. Going on 45 years now.

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hair_10@reddit

I'm married to the woman I dated in high school...does that count? We went our separate ways for about 33 years but then reconnected 7 years ago and married.

But my friends? Have a couple of people I'm "FB friends" with, but I'm not in touch with any of them.

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wandererwayfayer@reddit

I have one. She is my best friend.

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Das_Rote_Han@reddit

Friends with 2 from HS. Out of a class of 650. Few more I miss that I fell out of touch with before the time of chat apps and email.

While I didn't mind HS I didn't lament much about it or college. Have 2 friends from there as well.

Nope, I keep in touch with a few friends from HS. In fact, I was just talking to a friend whose daughter got married over the weekend, but I've seen her like 3 times in the past 10 years.

I moved far away and rarely go back, so it's hard to maintain friendships.

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Velvet_Samurai@reddit

I was part of a 4 man group, I saw one of them today, texted another, and the 4th actually is missing in action, no one has seen him in a decade.

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I do! Of my core group of friends I have one from middle school, two from high school (one went to another school), and one is the ex of a high school friend that we kept in the divorce. We went separate ways after high school 40 years ago, but kept in touch. We started to get together every other month for dinner for the last 25ish years or so.

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Ta_mere6969@reddit

I texted friend last night who I've known since 3rd grade, we met in the early 80s.

I dated my wife briefly in high school, we reconnected 20ish years later.

I'm in a group chat with kids from our elementary school.

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redvelvet9976@reddit

40 years of friendship! She’s the best!!

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pixelgeekgirl@reddit

One friend from high school that I still consider a best friend. The other two of my main friend group have passed away.

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Ecstatic-Skill-4916@reddit

None, the last friend I had from childhood I haven't heard from in three years. We always texted each other on our birthdays, but he just stopped a couple of years ago. I wished him a "happy birthday" and never heard from him, and I know he is still alive. He has a Youtube channel.

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1989DiscGolfer@reddit

I see my 4th grade through HS best friend about once a decade, and not really anybody else from my k-12 life much. He's a super good dude but usually several states away from me.

The group that I'm closest with are all college friends with each other and more or less adopted me as a "stray" (plus most of them are around 8 years older than me). I met two of them playing Disc Golf back in 1996. We played together often, when they invited me to their annual camping shindig for their college fraternity. They're all great and we have such a blast pretending we're still in our twenties even to this day. Haven't stopped going to those in that entire time, and plus, we all started jamming together with our instruments around 15 years ago, which has gotten me back into playing my guitar after years and years of it collecting dust. It inspired me to try bass at age 48 several years ago and it's been my favorite hobby since then.

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Frosty-Solid5460@reddit

Wouldn't say close, I grew up in the hood, so all my friends were gangbangers/drug dealers. They may not be active in that lifestyle but they're kinda mentally stuck in that time period. They're still the homies, but I've obviously distanced myself.

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CaptainQueen1701@reddit

No. Only from Uni.

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7GrenciaMars@reddit

Okay, I have very, very dear friends from high school that I'm still in touch with and love better than most of my family, but we all live far apart so it's not the same kind of closeness. But if I was ever in the same room with them ever again, we would totally be the same kind of friends we were back then.

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djunderh2o@reddit

Two friends that I grew up with, known the family for 40+ yrs and still get together every 2-3 yrs. We live in MA, CA and Wash DC. They are like my brothers.

One of my best friends is a neighbor kid I met when I was 4. We've been through a hell of a lot in the last 45 years, and not always close the whole time, but we text nearly daily. It works great for me because she's got almost a photogenic memory and I have aphantasia and SDAM so I don't remember shit about my childhood and she's there with all the receipts.

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