Writer's Block: Celebrating Friendships

[xiphias]

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Okay, this one is easy for me. rebmommy.

Duh.

Comments

[ron_newman]

For me, I guess it would be fauxklore, whom I knew many years ago from Usenet, but only recently on LJ.

[bercilakslady.livejournal.com]

Similarly easy for me. skillethead

[bercilakslady.livejournal.com]

skillethead hasn't posted in years, but I've known Dad longer than anyone but Mom, who doesn't have an LJ. :)

[rosefox]

Tie between rosemom and charlesplatt. Runner-up is afcahn, since my kindergarten best friend doesn't have an LJ.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

I gave it to rebmommy, on the theory that Dad only met me at birth.

[rosefox]

Mm, fair. Depends on what you mean by "met". I consider talking to a fetus to be about as much "meeting" as, say, getting to know someone online: distance causes loss of nuance but you can still gain some familiarity.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

*collapses in delighted laughter*

This discussion is SO YOU. BOTH OF YOU.

[rosefox]

*grin* Glad to provide entertainment!

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Well, it's kind of the obvious discussion to have when one or more of one's parents have LiveJournals.

I mean, I think there are actually four or five people on my friends list who have been friends of my parents continuously since before I was born, and therefore might be able to be considered to have known me pre-nataly.

Of course, this whole discussion is NOT counting people who've known each other in past lives and so forth -- THAT could get even LONGER.

[dancing-kiralee.livejournal.com]

Yes, especially if the two people in question don't agree about having met in a past life (or which one).

And what happens if you don't consider the timeline to be continuous, so one could live in the 16th century after living in the 19th?

I mean I get what your saying by chosing rebmommy, but I think I've known you in a previous life (and will know you in a future one too); but I'm pretty sure you don't think you've known me...

Kiralee

[felis-sidus.livejournal.com]

Well, if we're going to be technical about it (and you just know that I am), your Dad isn't on LJ, so he's not in the running anyway.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Yes, true. However, you ARE in the running, since you ALSO met me pre-natally.

Just not QUITE as early as rebmommy.

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[(Anonymous)]

Maybe more data than you need to know, but I mentioned to your mother the next morning that we weren't alone anymore. You didn't get to daylight for another eight months. Still, i don't have a LJ account, so maybe she still has the honor. Duzzy

[yehoshua.livejournal.com]

Not so easy for me. On one hand, there's lokitrickster who was in Aggressive Youth starting in about 1988 or '89. But he hasn't posted anything in years and years, and I think the account is fallow now. He's the guy in the middle of my userpic.

OTOH, there's zachkessin, who was the second or third person I met at Brandeis who wasn't a camp counselor AIDE Group leader.

[ceo]

If it's "who did I meet first?", it's jim_p, who I met when I was 13 and once again at (I think) 18, but then forgot he existed until I met him again over a decade later. As for who I've known the longest continuously, it's docwatson42, who I met in my junior year in high school. (kalessin remembers me from the same timeframe, but not I him.)

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

I *think* clauclauclaudia, via whom I met you, and I met you and WD at around the same time, and spinrabbit and sparkymonster my sophomore year.

[wcg.livejournal.com]

Obviously, for me it's pagawne. I've known her for just about 37 years now, and we've been married for a bit over 36 of them.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

You must have fallen in love pretty darned fast, to be married within a year of meeting.

[wcg.livejournal.com]

Indeed we did.

[nolly.livejournal.com]

lylemullican is my brother, who I've known all his life, but he doesn't really use the account. Next would be trendywendy, who I met in our junior high drama club.

[ailsaek.livejournal.com]

My sister's on LJ, so there's no contest.

[jehanna.livejournal.com]

In my case it has to be lagaz, since we've known each other since we were 13.

[micheinnz.livejournal.com]

Probably browngirl.

[felis-sidus.livejournal.com]

rebmommy for me, too!