I have a friend I've known since...

[yvr girl]

Kindergarten. (circa 1972)

What's your longest standing friendship?

[auntAgonist]

1. my best friend and I have been

friends since 1975. It will be 31 years this year since we met. She is a cousin of my first husband, that's never interfered with our relationship.

I have a friend who I last saw in 1966, we group up together in Scotland. I left there when I was 9 years old to move to Canada. She is meeting me in Toronto this summer! ! 40 years later.


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[BikeWriter]

2. I'm currently spending time with a woman I first dated in 1970.

[Whoa_Nelly]

3. 49 years

Best friend growing up, and still best friends. Our families go back three generations, and we grew up only a house away from each other. We still talk on the phone at least once a week, and see each other 1-3 times a year (she lives in OK. I'm in CA)

She's 20 months younger than me. I remember her learning how to walk. We went to school, church and ballet together. I beat up boys who picked on her.

It's funny, but when I think of her, I still her face as a child. When we get together, we laugh like we're still 3-year olds.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. I have one girlfriend who I've known since the 7th grade...

We attended high school and college together....

She came to my wedding, and I went to hers....

Our babies intermingled during those years.....

She moved away, but we stayed in touch...

Then her husband got sick and died.....

She met a new gentleman, and they married....we went up for the reception...

We still talk now and then....

It's a lot of history, since we're both in our sixties now!

What a life......:thumbsup:

[leftofthedial]

5. since 7th grade

1968

[LeftyMom]

6. My best friend and I met when I was seven and she was five

We lived across the street from each other most of our childhoods, went to high school together and even though she lives out of state now we still talk every two or three days. Our mothers are friends, my little sister and her little brother played football together and my late grandmother was a close friend of her grandparents, so it's a very good thing we get along since we'd have run into each other all the time growing up anyhow.

We have *nothing* in common really (she's a carniverous, SUV-driving, walmart shopping, redneck two time * voter) but we're still great friends. Don't ask me how that works, I have no idea.

[Ptah]

7. High school chum, High school friends, my kids:

[neweurope]

8. I've known my best friend for 37 years.

That friendship is a great comfort:)

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[Robeson]

9. Since 7th grade. I'm 42 now. So, I guess that's a long time.

[fizzgig]

10. i feel like a youngun!

nearly 10 years, that's the how long i've known my best friend

but i will do anything for her, including flying across the atlantic next month despite my fears of flying

however, i am want to get in touch with my best friend of more than 20 years ago

i have his parents' number, but there is a part of me that is scared

[SKKY]

11. Andy and Chris, known them since 1987

[NMMNG]

12. 28 years, 1 month, 15 days

Give or take a few days.

[tjwmason]

13. I'm not in contact with anybody from school.

But I do have two friends whom I met on the first and second days that I was at university.

[Fox Mulder]

14. I've had one since birth...

my identical twin bro.

Yeah...he's pretty much the only friend I have right now...

Sad, eh?

[lizziegrace]

15. I was just about to post about my twin sister

We're fraternal and have had our moments over the years, but she's my oldest friend. I can't remember a time she wasn't there! :)

[LynzM]

16. One friend whose mom knew my mom before we were both born

We've been on-and-off friends at times (middle school's a bitch), but we are back to being good friends again! I consider myself very lucky to have even one friend who I have known that long. My other longest friendships only date back to '94.

[Cathyclysmic]

17. Kindergarden here, too.

It's amazing how we just click for 31 years,even if we have not talked in awhile.