My Childhood Friend Rita

Then after Christmas, we got the sad news that

the husband of one of my childhood friends had

died on Christmas Eve Day. I had only found out

a couple of weeks before that the possibility of

his death was imminent. Rita and I lived together

while attending Ricks college where we both found

our eternal sweethearts. We always talked about how

funny it was that we both ended up with Idaho

boys and lived only about a half hour away

from each other when we had grown up

together so far away from here.

Rita and I have known each other since

time began for both of us. That is Rita

above my left shoulder at my

8th Birthday Party.

I have other pictures of us together when

we were younger, but I couldn't

find them at the time of this posting.