High School reunion, an Unexpected Opportunity
When I was young, I had the impression that the world consisted of only my family, my neighbors, the people at school and those who inhabited my favorite make believe worlds such as Lucy & Ricky, Fred & Ethel, Donny Osmond and of course, the entire Brady Bunch Family. As I grew older I became aware of the world gradually expanding. When I was an older teenager, I particularly remember a day at the beach when I started a conversation with another as the salt water idly eddied around our ankles. I remember that when she told me that she was from Menlo Park Terrace I was delighted to think that "all the way at the shore", I could run into somebody that lived near me. We quickly established a rapport by conversing about all the things that we had in common such as Food Town, Merit, Menlo Park Mall and the White Birch. As my world continued to expand and I finished high school and college and relocated to the Bridgewater area, I occasionally ran into people that were