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My Friends
Friends make life interesting, fun, and worth living!
Leawood Friends
| I used to live in Leawood, Kansas, up until I was
almost twelve. Although it’s been six years since I’ve lived there,
I still have some friends there. |
 Kim
Dicus - I have been friends with Kim since I was about 9 years
old or so and still lived in Leawood, Kansas. We attended Leawood
Elementary and later Leawood Middle School before I moved to Bailey.
She lived fairly close to me, so I could just walk to her house.
I visited her this summer when I passed through town on the way
home from my Summer Scholars Program. We watched The Russians
are Coming! The Russians are Coming! Next year, Kim is going
off to KSU. |
 Michael
Stoeckle - Michael and I first became friends when we were in third
grade. Granted, it was not exactly for the right reasons, but that’s
okay. We’ve remained friends of differing degrees over the years,
and whenever I see him, we usually can get into a fairly good discussion
of Star Wars, computers, or both. |
School Friends
| The "Triangle:" My two best friends |
 Amanda
Horn - Amanda's and my story is actually rather funny. We used
to absolutely despise each other! See, she had dated Trace for awhile,
and then he dated me to spite her, and then he dated her again after
dumping me. It wasn't until they had a huge fight and I found her
crying at the Snowball dance that we really started to be friends.
We're two very different personalities - I'm religious and rather
naïve, whereas she doesn't care much for religion and is a
lot more street smart than I. She's always supported me through
all things - from when Orion and I first got together to our breakup
and reuniting, as well as parental problems and friend problems.
She's in Wisconsin with her boyfriend, Nick, right now, and I miss
being able to run over to her house if something bad happens. |
 Trace
- Trace and I have an interesting relationship. We "dated" from
May to September of 1997, and then he dumped me for Amanda. He acted
like the biggest jerk for awhile, but then he began being nicer
to me. With classes and sports together, we saw each other all the
time and became more and more close. We're just like siblings now
- we care for each other, but we're always bickering. He's a runnaholic
(at least he WAS before he started slacking in college!) and introduced
me to cross-country. It's difficult to deal with him sometimes,
because I'm more of an outspoken type and he doesn't talk too much.We
worked together at JonesCyber
Solutions in the QA department in cubicles right next to each
other. Sometimes that's a good thing, sometimes bad, but always
interesting.
Visit Trace's
homepage!!!!
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| Other friends... |
 Lia
Rebits - Lia is a friend who is actually still at PCHS. She
was in the band with me and is one of the few really good players
that we have. We had history, band, and English together. One thing
I really love about Lia is her open-mindedness. She usually is willing
to hear both sides of the argument, andsoesn't make snap judgements.
I have never seen Lia get angry before, although I have seen her
frustrated at the same things I am. She's been such a wonderful
friend this year, supporting when Trace, Amanda, and Orion were
gone. |
 Jamie
Wilcox - Jamie Wilcox was also in the band with me, and we have
been friends for awhile. When we were both sophomores, we were the
librarians for the band, and we always used to sing songs bemoaning
our copying fate: "I'm not having any fun yet... because Mr. Cooksey
gives us way too much stuff to go copy!!" Sometimes I'm a little
short with Jamie, which I ought not do. She is so funny sometimes
- she cracks me up! |
 Michelle
Cullen - Michelle and I have just become friends this year.
She is such a cool person -she's outspoken about EVERYTHING! She
was supposed to be a junior this year, but graduated early. We can
go off on the funniest tangents sometimes. Michelle's been really
big in to Speech, travelling, and British-bashing. Now she's over
in Switzerland, spending a year abroad before coming back and going
to college. |
 Shannon
Boatright - Shannon was on the cross-country team with me and will
be a junior this year. Since I've gotten slower and she's gotten
faster, we're running at about the same pace. She and I can talk
about a variety of things, and she's a lot of fun to be with. We
were in Drama together this past semester, and it was just a blast!
She played Aunt Spiker in James and the Giant Peach and stole
the show. |
 Justin
Dotson - Justin is an interesting character. I met him when I was
in seventh grade, and we've been friends since then. He's played
the alto sax in the band since forever, and has been in my Chemistry
and Physics classes. He and Lia doubled with me to prom. Sometimes
he's so annoying, but other times he's great fun to be with. I haven't
heard from him since school got out, so I don't know what he's been
up to lately. |
 Cathy
Johnston - Cathy is another friend that I've had since the seventh
grade. Cathy's always had a cool sense of humor, and I enjoy hanging
out with her. |
Wash U Friends
 Drew
McKeown - Drew McKeown is a cool person. He and I were
pretty much inseperable while we were there at Wash U, and we had
so much fun together. He lives in Herrin, IL, and I think I got
him to stop complaining about its size when I told him about Bailey.
Drew, I promise you I'll send you those TI-89 programs someday!
Drew has been my POA (Personal Orion Advisor) since last year, helping
me to get through the breakup, the sticky area of going back to
being friends, and getting back together. Thanks Drew - now give
me a call sometime, will ya? Drew is going back to Wash U in the
fall. |
 Elizabeth
Foster - Elizabeth is another one of my cool Wash U friends,
but haven't heard from her in awhile. She's going to Mt. Holyoke
in massachusetts. She is a Star Wars and X-Files fanatic, obsessing
particularly on Ewan McGregor and David Duchovny. She is so fun
to be with! Elizabeth is from Kingwood, Texas, and since everything
in Texas is big (or so it seems), her voice fits right in. I miss
you, Elizabeth! Write me soon! |
 Jolie
Petersen - I also met Jolie at Wash U (which I guess is why
she's under this heading, huh?). She's also LDS, and she and I went
to sacrament meeting every week together while we were there. It
was great fun, and over the months after Wash U, we've become even
better friends through letters and phone calls. She wanted to go
to BYU, but the entire application process got messed up, so she
didn't get her application processed in time. She's gonig to Truman
State in Missouri instead. With any luck, she might be able to transfer
to BYU next year. |
Church Friends
   Olivia
Crawford , Adam Crawford, Marion
Crawford, Sister Crawford
- I met Olivia at church, and even though there's a two-year age
difference, we're still friends. I tutored Olivia in the resource
room all this past year in math, so we saw a lot of each other.
Adam was on the track team with me my sophomore year and in my CPI
class last year. I served with him on the student council this past
year. He loves the San Francisco 49ers, cars, and giving me a hard
time. He's going to Georgia now to live with a Marion is going to
school at Ricks College right
now. She had one of the lead roles in the production there
last year and is enjoying college for the most part. Sister Crawford
is their mother, and has lent me things and helped me out when things
got tough. She is the Relief
Society president right now. They've all been very supportive
of me and are also just fun to hang out with. |
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The Egberts - (Sorry no picture). I met
Brother Egbert in an interesting way. My brother and his daughter
were in a second grade production about a month after I decided
I wanted to join the Church. He noticed my overly-pinned and lettered
jacket, and he started asking me about it all. He asked me where
I wanted to go to college, and when I told him BYU,
he was exceedingly surprised. From there, both Brother
and Sister Egbert have helped me out in various ways over the
past year - giving me rides to church before my parents stopped
me, letting me know what's going on, and so forth. Brother Egbert
even gave the talk on the Holy Ghost at my baptism.
He makes educational cartoons in a series he calls Imagiplaytion.
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