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The day that Mel was here with her kids, it brought back a ton of memories from when I was little. I have been coming to this beach my whole life... I missed one year when was around 20 and that's it!
That night after Mel left, I was talking with my dad about all the stuff we did and people we knew 20-30 years ago down here. There was the family that stayed for the whole summer who owned a restaurant. Then there was the family I hung out with. They were from Arlington and had 5 kids. Linda was my age, Tommy a few years younger, then Beth was my brothers age, Chris a little younger and Pat was 10 years younger than me... he was about 6 weeks old when they started coming down here.
I think that family was here every single summer for 5 or so years. It was great! We had so much fun playing with them.
Even though they only lived a couple of towns away, Linda and I were penpals! (WAY before the internet and email!) Once and a while we would get together during the school year, but come summertime and Cape Cod, Linda was my best friend from 2 whole weeks!
After talking to dad about that family (say Smith's). I started looking for Linda on Facebook and couldn't find her. I found a Tom Smith, from Arlington a couple of years younger than me. He went to Northeastern and I'm pretty sure that Linda went there too. SO I sent Tom an email through Facebook. I put the subject "Not sure if you're the Smiths I'm thinking about"
And I went into how I remembered the 5 of them and I didn't know if it was him, but if it was to say hi to Linda and their parents. Well, guess what? It was him!! How funny is that?
Tom wrote back asking if I was at the same beach. He's married with a son and another baby on the way. Linda has 4 girls and Beth has one! He told me to try Linda again and gave me her married last name. So I sent her a friend request with a message.
Some things on facebook aren't great.... I really don't need all the people I really wasn't friends with in HS as my "Friends" on facebook, but finding people like Linda and Tom, with all those childhood memories? That's great!
I can't wait to hear back from her!!