IRememberEssay
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I Remember.....
I remember the kid next door with whom I grew up, a short and stocky lad
named Donald Meaux. Did I say stocky? A modern day Pillsbury Dough Boy with
high top sneakers and knee high-socks is a more accurate description. He has been
my next door neighbor for more than eighteen years. We met as most children do
through the friendship of our parents. Our fathers shared cold beers in the evening,
while our mothers gossiped in the kitchen over tea. Their two diapered infants
played in the playpen together day in and day out. In this friendship, which was
similar to that of a married couple, Donald and I had our ups and our downs; yet for
ten years, we spent day after day together. We often fought, and then we made up
once the ice cream man came around the corner in his magical truck. But, like most
good things, the friendship wore away with time.
I remember Donald as a spoiled, aggravating four year old. Neither of these
are characteristics that anyone looks for in a lifelong friendship. Yet, characteristics
like these are not very important to a child of four. At four years old, people

get worse if you let them linger, like old meat left out on the counter to spoil.
Over the eighteen years that I have known Donald, I have learned a lot. I
for dessert every now and then. For the first few years, our friendship was flawless.
but for years it felt as though it were miles.
complicated about it; it just happened. He kept his old friends, and I made new
ended up talking for hours about old times and school. We spoke for the first time
we find it in ourselves to once again visit with each other.
ones. I played sports and he did not . I went out on the weekends and he stayed
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Approximate Word count = 786
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
Category: English
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