John

Also attending school across the street was the next-door kid, John Wilson, who was in the same grade and turned out to be a good friend for many years - up until high school when our paths of life diverged. He shows up in my story regularly, as he was a major player in my growing-up years. I never told him how much it meant to have him as a friend. Maybe it was just understood between us. The last time I saw him or his sisters was at his mom's funeral decades ago.