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Day 19: Old friends, New lives

Montclair, United States


It's been a few days without internet access so the details of the preceding few days may be a bit fuzzy, or I may choose to make things up to fill in for the dark spots. You'll never know which I made up and which was real, so who cares?

I said good bye to the world's greatest parents and pushed off for New Jersey where I visited with two friends from High School who meant a lot to me, but that I had pretty much lost contact with and both of whom were recent mothers and living in New Jersey.

Jennifer Neiderhoffer (nee Levy) was my best friend in High School. She along with Jenn Baum and I would hang out in her basement watching MTV, or go to the Unicorn Diner for Gravy fries. The friendship the three of us had was the closest I ever got to the average American High School experience. I knew Jenn for many years prior to our closer friendship and I developed somewhat of a crush on her that developed into much much more than that. Years later, something happened after Heather and I broke up that caused me to lose contact with her. I'm still not entirely sure what that was, but it had something to do with rewriting my life and she was a casualty of that. Now that my life is back on track, I endeavor to reconnect with her on a more consistent basis. This is a picture of her beautiful baby girl Samantha and I hanging out on the couch just like her mom and I used to do.

Katie Barrett (nee Travis) was my High School girlfriend. We dated for a very long time and never officially broke up. Katie was the centerpiece of my social life at the LaGuardia High School for the Performing Arts, an amazing opera singer and so full of life and passion. We split up after graduating, had a summer fling one summer thereafter and then I got very serious with Heather and she went to Italy. She's now a mom with another one on the way. This is Casey her infectiously happy boy in the arms of his dad Damien.

We went to dinner in Montclair, NJ at this really cute former Soda fountain where in addition to my shrimp on grits I had a quintessential New York soda fountain drink that you just can't get outside of the influence of Brooklyn Jews: A chocolate egg cream.
I ended up hitting the Road really late and got to DC around 12:30am after driving through as many states as I did hours and paying more than 20 bucks in tolls.


permalink written by  JRadhirsch on September 19, 2008 from Montclair, United States
from the travel blog: The Great American Road Trip
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    jenn


    permalink written by  jenn on September 23, 2008


    okay, i will agree with what you wrote about your ol mom & pop but it was easy being great parents when we had great kids. Our house didn't look too bad either. So very glad you got to reconnect with Jenn and Katy. Keep the reunions going.

    permalink written by  jrad's mom on September 23, 2008

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