How many friends have you kept from elementary school? From high school?

How many friends have you kept from elementary school? From high school?
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answer:From Elementary school – exactly zero. Most of my grade-school years were spent in New York, and since we left with no warning to me, there was no time to get an address to remain pen-pals. I tracked down one of my best friends from second grade, but turns out that getting held back in that year was a foreshadowing of things to come – she was a dropout with a kid from an early teen pregnancy, who was incapable of stringing together a proper sentence. From high school I have one really good friend, someone I consider a bestie and my oldest friend, and a couple of friends that I talk to on Facebook and see once or twice a year during Renaissance Festival season. Other than that I’ve repressed most of high school.
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