My friends 




One of my friends in high school was named Jack Miller Moore.  He was in love with my best friend Dixie....  They dated off and on for several years but her parents broke them up, as they were afraid he would never amount to anything....


He was a sweet blue eyed blond headed boy.  Everyone loved him, and he was chosen for Mr this and that.  Played football and basketball and baseball.  He and I would get paired off from time to time when we were not dating anyone special.  Had a lot of fun too.  Never forget going with him to see Tom Jones, the movie.  I was so embarrassed but then remembered I was with Jack.   He was like a brother, even tho every time he took me home he would beg for sex.  He never quit.    He always sang "Mrs. Robinson got a lovely daughter.


Well school was over, Dixie had to marry Ronnie a guy she had dated from out of town, and her Dad disowned her.     Everything went to sister, Judy..  Then Dad died..  Jack went into the service.... Viet Nam....  Flew planes.... Was outstanding.... Came home finally and went to law school, and became DA for Bell County.


Jack Married a girl he never really cared about named Gloria.  We all went to school together, and she was younger than us....  I was cheerleader with her... They had three boys and a girl.   I remember her Mother died when she was 12.  She loved Jack very much.


Meanwhile Dixie had her boy, Ronald and Judy her sister, had Stacey....  Judy dies from a overdose in Dallas,  leaving all of the inheritance to Stacy who  was adopted by Dixie and her husband Ronnie...  


Time goes by.  I see Dixie and Jack and Gloria at our 10 year reunion.  Jack just stares at Dixie.    


I had my first husband with me.  I had dated Jack's best friend for awhile, but had broken up with him because my parents would not let me date a Catholic boy back then.....My brother married a Catholic girl, and later became Catholic too.  Of course Daddy had died already....Always wondered what Daddy would have said about that, and then having two grandchildren Catholic.  


Six years ago Ronnie, Dixie's husband dies of a heart attack..  He and Dixie raised their son and Judy's little girl....She was eight months old when Judy died....  .  Beautiful kids...  and five months later Jack dies of a brain tumor.  Scott and White treated him for depression then ... finially they said it was a tumor.


When ever we met for our class reunions....50th coming next year, we go to where Jack was buried and sit around and visit with him.  All of us from my class remember good times.... 
We are very close..  We share alot.   The cemetery is out in a pasture off of the Little River  Bridge Road... A private place where we road horses and spent summers laughing and talking and riding bare back.  The boys were sweet and the girls were innocent and life was going to go on and on...  I hug the guy Daddy made me break up with, and say hi to his wife. He has been battling cancer for a number of years.    I hope he continues to improve.