I actually met Lilly Dancyger a few years ago. Edie’s sister and brother-in-law were visiting, and we were walking around the Haight Ashbury and I saw what looked like a medium sized makeup bag on the ground. For some reason I decided to take a look and opened up the bag, and it contained makeup and a number of prescription medications. Naturally they had the patient name on them and it was Lilly Dancyger. I looked her up online and amazingly a public Facebook post came up saying she was visiting San Francisco and her bags were stolen from a car, including her laptop. We got in touch, and although she didn’t get her laptop back, I was glad to meet her and her boyfriend in a couple of days in Santa Cruz (where we happened to be going and where she’d be passing through) and get her bag back to her. She was here on a book tour, and I’ve followed her on Instagram ever since. Small world.
Friends are fascinating. I love the friends I don't see often, but who you can get right back into the groove with instantly when you do see them. My friend Darcy is like that. It's magic.
I have had the same best friend since we were both five years old. It's funny because we are *very* different people. I don't know if we met today if we would be friends. But we have so many decades of shared history, and he is wonderful.
Likewise!! The last time I could really say I had one best friend, it was you!! Of course, you're so great that everyone wants to be your best friend, so I know you had a few. 😊 BTW, I've always thought you and Lucy would get along well if you knew each other!
Those photos brought back some old friendships! I think I met you both a couple of years after the pic of you and Lucy. Mary was my second best friend. With her family travels, she would be in the US, then India for a few years, back in the US, to Sri Lanka, off for treatment in Memphis, so I had 2 best friends for a while. While we've only seen each other once since Mary's wedding, I think about you fairly frequently, remembering all the evenings at someone's house. I miss Mary regularly, as I was her friend from 6, hung out all through junior & senior high school, and then were 2/3 of the women in our engineering program in college. Right now, having just retired and returned to Minnesota, I'm in the process of figuring my friendships out again!
Wow, have we really only seen each other once since Mary's wedding? I probably feel like it's been more because of our Facebook connection — the one good feature of Facebook being connecting with friends. Amazing how time goes by. Hope we'll meet up again one of these days, and best wishes figuring out the local friendships! At least you'll have more time for them now.
We've lived on different sides of the continent, so Facebook is our connection. The only reason that I am still on FB is to stay connected to old friends.
Thanks, Heidi! People did used to think Mary and I were sisters, mainly because we had the same haircut and wore the same trench coat and always hung out together. We really didn't look alike, lol!
I actually met Lilly Dancyger a few years ago. Edie’s sister and brother-in-law were visiting, and we were walking around the Haight Ashbury and I saw what looked like a medium sized makeup bag on the ground. For some reason I decided to take a look and opened up the bag, and it contained makeup and a number of prescription medications. Naturally they had the patient name on them and it was Lilly Dancyger. I looked her up online and amazingly a public Facebook post came up saying she was visiting San Francisco and her bags were stolen from a car, including her laptop. We got in touch, and although she didn’t get her laptop back, I was glad to meet her and her boyfriend in a couple of days in Santa Cruz (where we happened to be going and where she’d be passing through) and get her bag back to her. She was here on a book tour, and I’ve followed her on Instagram ever since. Small world.
That is wild, Steve! I loved her book — she's an excellent writer.
Friends are fascinating. I love the friends I don't see often, but who you can get right back into the groove with instantly when you do see them. My friend Darcy is like that. It's magic.
I have had the same best friend since we were both five years old. It's funny because we are *very* different people. I don't know if we met today if we would be friends. But we have so many decades of shared history, and he is wonderful.
It's so great to have friends from childhood! I know not everyone has that. And I know what you mean — that shared history is so powerful.
I'm proud, happy, and honored to be part of your tier!! xo
Likewise!! The last time I could really say I had one best friend, it was you!! Of course, you're so great that everyone wants to be your best friend, so I know you had a few. 😊 BTW, I've always thought you and Lucy would get along well if you knew each other!
Those photos brought back some old friendships! I think I met you both a couple of years after the pic of you and Lucy. Mary was my second best friend. With her family travels, she would be in the US, then India for a few years, back in the US, to Sri Lanka, off for treatment in Memphis, so I had 2 best friends for a while. While we've only seen each other once since Mary's wedding, I think about you fairly frequently, remembering all the evenings at someone's house. I miss Mary regularly, as I was her friend from 6, hung out all through junior & senior high school, and then were 2/3 of the women in our engineering program in college. Right now, having just retired and returned to Minnesota, I'm in the process of figuring my friendships out again!
Wow, have we really only seen each other once since Mary's wedding? I probably feel like it's been more because of our Facebook connection — the one good feature of Facebook being connecting with friends. Amazing how time goes by. Hope we'll meet up again one of these days, and best wishes figuring out the local friendships! At least you'll have more time for them now.
We've lived on different sides of the continent, so Facebook is our connection. The only reason that I am still on FB is to stay connected to old friends.
I think it’s interesting how much you look like your friends in both the photos. Such a great story!! Thanks for sharing this!
Heidi
Thanks, Heidi! People did used to think Mary and I were sisters, mainly because we had the same haircut and wore the same trench coat and always hung out together. We really didn't look alike, lol!