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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WOW I can hardly believe that I have been out of school this long. I don\u2019t know about you but I am always such a mixed bag of emotions leading up to my reunions. I am really super excited until about the week of and then the dread and insecurity sets in and I spend a majority of the week changing my mind about attending. I have gone to all of them except the 15th. The negative voices won out that year. They lost by a very narrow margin for my 20th. It was snowing that evening and even during the 45 minutes drive I was second guessing my decision. Once there I had a fabulous time and don\u2019t regret going. For my 25th I was on the committee putting it together so didn\u2019t have a choice. Once again I had a fabulous time and very little arguing with myself about whether or not I was going to attend. So this year of course I was excited right up until about 4 days before. The negative voices reared their ugly head again. Luckily my miserly side won out in that I paid to attend and didn\u2019t want to be out that money. Yes there were still moments where I really felt like I just didn\u2019t fit it but that was very short lived. I very much enjoyed catching up with my classmates. Especially a few that I hadn\u2019t had a chance to at previous reunions. So as I sat here looking over the pictures posted from this years reunion I can\u2019t help but feel blessed to have such a great group of classmates. I wish more would have been able to attend. Maybe we will see more at our 35th. For those of you that have never attended one of your class reunions I highly encourage you to give it a try you might be pleasantly surprised.<\/p>\n
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WOW I can hardly believe that I have been out of school this long. I don\u2019t know about you but I am always such a mixed bag of emotions leading up to my reunions. I am really super excited until about the week of and then the dread and insecurity sets in and I spend a majority of the week changing my mind about attending. I have gone to all of them except the 15th. The negative voices won out that year. They lost by a very narrow margin for my 20th. It was snowing that evening and even during the 45 minutes drive I was second guessing my decision. Once there I had a fabulous time and don\u2019t regret going. For my 25th I was on the committee putting it together so didn\u2019t have a choice. Once again I had a fabulous time and very little arguing with myself about whether or not I was going to attend. So this year of course I was excited right up until about 4 days before. The negative voices reared their ugly head again. Luckily my miserly side won out in that I paid to attend and didn\u2019t want to be out that money. Yes there were still moments where I really felt like I just didn\u2019t fit it but that was very short lived. I very much enjoyed catching up with my classmates. Especially a few that I hadn\u2019t had a chance to at previous reunions. So as I sat here looking over the pictures posted from this years reunion I can\u2019t help but feel blessed to have such a great group of classmates. I wish more would have been able to attend. Maybe we will see more at our 35th. For those of you that have never attended one of your class reunions I highly encourage you to give it a try you might be pleasantly surprised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[24],"tags":[73,75,74],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Y6g5-66","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":243,"url":"https:\/\/sefosterauthor.com\/blog\/index.php\/2018\/06\/18\/fear-is-a-liar\/monday-musings\/sefoster\/","url_meta":{"origin":378,"position":0},"title":"Fear is a Liar","author":"sefoster","date":"June 18, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Almost anyone who knows me is well aware that music holds a very special place in my life. 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