Reconnecting with Sherry

One of my main reasons for wanting to go to northern California was to see  my cousin Sherry Poe. It would be the first times in 43  years. 

We had lost touch with each other over the years. We both moved several times, we married giving us different last names making it hard to find each other. Time gets away and life goes by very fast. People get busy living and forget to stay in touch .The one constant we had was Aunt Donna. She still lives in Clinton and Sherry had her phone number. Aunt Donna and Uncle Gene were friends of her father. In fact Uncle Gene was her father, Bill Poe's first cousin.  Aunt Donna is a doll, when Sherry called her on a random Sunday morning, Aunt Donna told her that I was in Kentucky for a month and gave her my cell phone number.

When Sherry called me I was thrilled to hear from her. We talked like we had just seen each other the week before. When we met each other in California, it was the same way.  It felt like we had just had coffee the day before. 

We ate dinner at Denny's and then went to the ocean. It was cool by the ocean. It wasn't cool---it was cold. The wind whipping the waves surrounded us in a damp coldness. It was beautiful to watch. We sat on a picnic table and told each other our lives. 

Tommy took pictures of us as we talked. It was almost like being a kid again. There were lots of "do you remember......" questions.  The answers were sometimes surprising.  We laughed and talked for several hours.  We will stay in touch this time.  Time flies, however we do not have another 43 years to loose.