Crossing Paths

An old friend from 7th grade contacted me the other day... 7th grade was when I lived in this small, ghetto town in Riverside, the year before I moved to where I live now. So of course it was a pretty opposite world. Anyways, I asked her to tell me how everyone's doing, if everyone is still friends... and basically what's happened these last five years. Her first response? "Well I don't think anyone that you talked to has had kids yet..." What? We haven't even graduated yet... LOL. I was just so baffled... it sounded so natural and common coming from her mouth and that was nowhere near what I had expected to hear about. As if... that's as normal as it gets. Wow.