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Helen Neptune (Yeomans)
In preparing for our reunion, I came across the following quote from John Updike's book My Father's Tears. It was a passage about a fifty-fifth high school reunion.
" The list of our deceased classmates on the back of the program grows longer; the class beauties have gone to fat or bony-cronehood; the sports stars and non-athletes alike move about with the aid of pacemakers and plastic knees, retired and taking up space at an age when most of our fathers were considerately dead.
But we don't see ourselves that way, as lame and old. We see kindergarten children--the same round fresh faces, the same cup ears and long lashed eyes. We hear the gleeful shrieking during elementary-school recess and the sedutive saxophones and muted trumpets of the locally bred swing bands that serenaded the blue-lit gymnasium during high-school dances."
Maybe this does not depict us but it reminded me on some of my past and hopeully yours as well, Helen
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