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I keep in touch with a few old school friends, but I think its almost human nature to lose touch with old friends as you make new ones, your social circle is constantly changing. Tools such as Facebook and Skype make it easier to stay in touch no matter where you are.
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My oldest friend is a person I met at primary school 62 years ago. We still keep in touch even though she lives down in Eastbourne.
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They say the dog is man's best friend. I don't believe it - how many of your friends would you neuter?
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I have lunch every 6 weeks with four school friends, we havent always kept in touch but 'found' each other a few years back and tried to keep it going since.I am in touch with one other spasmodically by email. Others who I was very close to both at school and early married life have disappeared which I regret
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Its a lot less effort to keep in touch nowadays. When I left school it wasn't common for everybody even to have a phone in their home let alone email. I've got back in touch with lots of friends via Friends reunited a where there are areas for all the local Lowestoft school and places of work. it has been very enjoyable and enlightening to hear how friends turned out in the end - except the guy in my class who retired at 45 - I hate him!! ;-p
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Facebook does make things easier
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With respect frakiesays, you should never hate any one, dislike them keep them at a distance if you like but never hate anybody ther's to much of it in this world.
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I think that was a jokey remark Aussie because the friend retired early and Frankie was meaning it in a joeky jealous way
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One of the problems with trying to trace old female schoolfriends is the fact that most get married and therefore have a new surname - it's most annoying really. Much easier to track down male friends.
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They say the dog is man's best friend. I don't believe it - how many of your friends would you neuter?
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JollyJapes
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Many women I know on Facebook put their maiden name as a 2nd surname on places like Facebook purely for that reason.
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yes, i don't hate anybody really, just jealous that a classmate of similar ability to me has managed to retire more than 20 years before me. he obviously did well in life and good luck to him.
I've tracked down several old girlfriends from my school days quite easily with Friends Reunited because everybody uses maiden names on there.
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I've learnt to take everything life throws at me!!
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I've tracked down several old girlfriends from my school days quite easily with Friends Reunited because everybody uses maiden names on there.
Have you told your wife? 
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JollyJapes
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It's not just things like Facebook that brings the world together - search engines such as Google do exactlythe same. In fact, back in 2006 I managed to track down my step mother in America using Google; the family had lost touch with her in 2001. My father and sisters had tried for over six months and had given up trying to find her, but Google helped us to locate her within a week. Of course, this only helps if that person has an online presence.
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Have you told your wife?
I may have mentioned it casually when she wasn't listening  They are all grey-haired old biddies now so I don't think there would be anything to get excited about.
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They are all grey-haired old biddies now so I don't think there would be anything to get excited about.
I still get excited by a grey-haired old biddy...maybe it is because I never think of her as a grey-haired old biddy 
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I may have mentioned it casually when she wasn't listening They are all grey-haired old biddies now so I don't think there would be anything to get excited about.
.......and you're young and nubile because you havent aged at the same rate as your old biddy school friends eh
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what do you do dave to get google look up people.well this grey haired old biddy off to hairdresser soon doing something about it.It white hair but as per usual looks old on a woman and mature on a man.been that colour since 40's i think,because this first time in 20 odd years i allowed it to grow,and now it can go
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SD: If it's any consolation - my grey hair started when I was 14 - and I was noticably grey by 16. I say that it was the worry I had with my parents!
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how i meant to word it daves is what do you have to type to get google to find old friends is it on a google site. how! when! and where.
yep trig wonder i got any hair at all because of my parents....i had big loss of hair just lately and it grown back a most odd colour,not flatering
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JollyJapes
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When I search on Google I use a variety of techniques.
The usual one is just typing in someones name. But I also use their name in quotes, such as "David". And sometimes it is better to click on the link on the left for UK websites only. There isnt really any one good way of searching for someone, merely trial and error, and crossing of fingers!
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SD: If it's any consolation - my grey hair started when I was 14 - and I was noticably grey by 16. I say that it was the worry I had with my parents!
Mine went grey and then fell out. Must have been that Was'n Go I was using. At least my grey-haired old biddies still have theirs, I don't know about their teeth though. I've not set eyes on any of them since they were nubile teenagers.
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Mine went grey and then fell out.
Mine went grey and my head grew uppards - through my existing hair - well, that's my excuse
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funkychick
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Well the flies need somewhere to skate
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As the old saying goes - there are no flies on me.
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I have two friends I would have liked to know about, but I guess they are not on the net, one is Lucy Smith she married a Smith also, and the other is Jeanie Forbes, or King, and she married, but I dont know that name, I think she lives in Trafalgar street, she was my neighbour when I lived in Tonning street, they were good pals.
I dont think being bald is a turn-off for men Trigger, I have seen lots of attractive bald men, it would be for ladies I guess  hi funky 
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