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TITLE: LIFE-LONG FRIENDS | Previous Challenge Entry
By Lucie Bouchard Antoniazzi
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Everyone makes friends along the path of life, but few are blessed with a friend who is there from the very beginning, and faithfully remains, every step of the way. I am one of the lucky ones blessed with such a friend.
I met Manon in July of 1968. I’d just moved into a house two houses away from hers. She came over to ask me to play, and we became instant friends. Over the next decade our friendship blossomed, and by the time we were teens, we were inseparable.
As the years passed, our responsibilities expanded, and our time spent together reduced. We had our studies and part-time jobs. Nonetheless, we still spent all of our free time together.
Soon after she started university, Manon fell in love. Naturally, she started spending most of her free time with her boyfriend. We still lived just two houses away from each other and found occasional moments to get together.
In the summer of 1986, Manon married her sweetheart and moved away. It was a difficult time for both of us. We had always been neighbors.
By then, I had a boyfriend too and was still in school, studying to become an engineer. Manon and I didn’t see each other much anymore. We kept in touch by phone and were always there for each other, but it wasn’t quite the same as being face-to-face.
I got married in 1989. I was a new wife, working full time, and Manon was expecting her first child. We did our best to see each other often so that she could share her pregnancy with me. Her son was born in October, and she moved back to the suburbs close to where we’d been raised.
One night in March of 1990, Manon called me, all excited.
“We just made an offer on a piece of land to get our new house built!” she announced.
“No kidding,” I answered. “We just made an offer on a piece of land too!”
As fate would have it, we had come full circle; our homes would be in the same residential development. We now live six houses away from each other, and her youngest son is my son’s friend. We’ve been best friends for 37 years and plan to stay that way -- always.
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