In my opinion the value of all these high school reunion websites is vastly overrated. Personally, any childhood friend worth keeping was kept as long as there was a legitimate bond between us. As time wore on the pages kept turning and the stories told themselves, as all stories eventually do. Some of the friendships deepened, some detoured, some destructed, and some just disappeared.

You can only relive the memories of that crazy year in Mr. Snagglepuss's economics class so many times before the acquaintanceship devolves into a lame echo chamber filled with highly personalized but nevertheless cliche nostalgia.

Fortunately for me, I did it the other way 'round. I was the kid with the Bible quotes plastered all over everything until the end of my junior year, when I started down the path to joining the "one night when I got plastered" boys.

Fittingly, although I made different friends in both of those teen phases, it is the friends who were able to love the same core "Andy" hidden underneath both the Holiness and the Hedonism who have remained treasures I appreciate more every year.