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MP? This to all you other also. When was the last ime you went back home to your home town. Do You ever dream of walking up to your school again, not the same as it was I know, to the corner drug store or drive in to get a coke where you use to, to walk the route you took as a kid walking to school, to go to YOUR church, to look in the phone bood and see if your friends still lives there. For me, it has been way to long and I am making plans to go back to Greenville, Mississippi, and do all those things. They were good years which I will never see again so, let this old man just walk in his old dreams and think, think how wonderful it was.

If that's in your dreams, of course do it!

That's what my sister and I did last March when we returned to our childhood home of LaMarque Texas. It'd been too long....

The only thing is, and you probably know this already...things won't be the same. It can be a little hard to take in the changes......

But you mentioned so many of the stops we made: the school, the church, the drug store, our old houses...

Sounds wonderful, GC. I still dream about my hometown and the house I grew up in. Remember I showed a picture of it here once?

Just last night I called a guy from my class that I've known since we were 6 years old. We were in SS class together in two different churches and he's now one of the deacons in the Baptist church I mostly grew up in.

I called him because he was a very close friend of Lonny, the guy who was killed in that plane crash. (Lonny was also a deacon in our church until he died.) I had heard he had a really hard time at the funeral so wanted to talk to him. Neither of us had a lot to say, but kind of talked about people we knew and a few memories came up.

It's strange because my life has led me all over the place, even around the world. I've moved more than 40 times in my life. His life has been lived almost all within the same county. He knows what is going on with nearly everyone I asked about, people I hadn't heard about or seen in 25 years since we were in school together.

Have you ever seen the movie A Trip to Bountiful? It's about an old lady who escapes from her son's place where she has no freedom and tries to go back to the house and town where she grew up to see her best friend. It's a wonderful movie. Kind of sad, but very touching. You'd like it, I know.

Toby, I go to MY church every time I visit my father. It's the same building but not the same church even though I see my choir director every time I go. I also see my 8th grade counselor from junior high school. It's really neat... you'll have a great time. Did I mention before that this year my father celebrated his 60 High School Reunion from Upper Meruion and I celebrated my 35th reunion and my brother would have celebrated his 30th? It was neat!