On Friday we are going to go to San Diego overnight.
It is so hard for me to go back to San Diego - so many memories - good and bad.
I have lost touch with almost all my San Diego friends - except Mage and Kim.
We will have breakfast with Mage and George - I'm a bit nervous because I haven't seen them in 24 years. What will they think of me? Will it be awkward or can we pick up and move forward? I hope so.
A few of my San Diego friends left San Diego - my friend Marcy moved to Texas - we keep in touch via email, phone calls and FB. And Don moved to Seattle and now is gone as well - I hope he and Gene are having a high old time together!
I wonder what happened to Carla and Joyce? What are they doing now?
San Diego - sometimes I wish I could move back but it just wouldn't be the same. San Diego was Gene's town.
We moved to San Diego in 1980 so I could go to SDSU. We lived in a dumpy 4-plex because the rent was cheap and it was close to SDSU so I could walk to class. We stayed after I graduated because it was cheap and I worked at SDSU and could now walk to work. I stayed after Gene died but then got evicted because the owners torn it down and built a fancy apartment building on the land.
We had good times in San Diego - visiting Point Loma, the tidepools, the navy ships, Mission Bay, Ocean Beach, Mission Beach, Balboa Park, SD Zoo (we had memberships) & Wild Animal Park, dinners with friends, Don's studio....and so much more.
We had bad times in San Diego -- the worst was Gene dying.
I met Dennis in San Diego and a new chapter started but San Diego is always going to be bittersweet for me.
For me too. But how wonderful we have reconnected. :)
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