One of several wonderful positives from a thirty-nine year coaching career that took my wife and I through six different communities is the many terrific friendships forged along the way. The 1960's opened friendships in Assumption, Mason City and Washington, Illinois. The first seven years in the '70's decade brought Edwardsville folks into our lives and from '77 until 1998, we enjoyed so many Jacksonville friendships. Since then, we have made more friends in Decatur.
In these, our retirement years, we meet up with those friends for some social gatherings. It is so very special to sit around chatting and reminiscing about our shared past. I have noticed those reunion-evenings turning into an exercise of each of us trying to help the others fill in names, remember places and occurrences...our commonality appears to be some memory loss. My (Kentucky born) Grandpa E.V. Bennett would say, "Y'all don't rekalek so good."
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