Dunlap Love

A few of the old Dunlap crowd met up at a P-town cafe called Panache. We used to hang out at Panache back in the high school days, but the place has been significantly vamped up and actually changed location since then. It is way snazzy. Really great food and fantastic coffee drinks. The best part, of course, was getting to catch up with some of my oldest and dearest friends. Its hard to believe that 10 (yes, 10) have passed. It seems like just yesterday we were all 16-- building towers out of our Snapple cans at lunchtime, stressing about our term papers for Mrs. Sullivan's English class, experiencing daily bouts of joy and sorrow, of sweet and bittersweet. In the intervening years, our friends have become doctors, lawyers, grad students, parents, teachers, and everything else in between. But its always so comforting to see each other again and know that the good things never change. We can go months or even years without seeing each other and never miss a beat.

It was just a small group that could get together: that's me on the left (all glammed up) Amy (and Bryn), Maria, and David. After 3-1/2 hours of non-stop chatter, Rob's head was probably spinning from all of our inside jokes, and we finally managed to tear ourselves away from this reunion.