Flashback Friday

I know, I know, I missed last week. Life happens, what can I say.

This week’s flashback Friday is a personal one. It’s about an old friend of mine. I don’t know why exactly but she’s been on my mind the last couple of weeks.

Her name was Aletha Leeuw. We just called her Lee. She was a little over 6 feet tall, thin, long blonde hair and a kind of crooked smile. She was an attention whore. (I absolutely don’t mean that in a bad way) I loved hanging out with her because she was an attention whore. Lee was like a party unto herself! She was “all in” 100% of the time. Whenever I see the saying, “live out loud”, I think of Lee. She had the best sense of humor. And she was super smart…she just didn’t want people to know that about her. She was an only child – which kind of explains the attention whore thing. She had a joyful spirit! She wasn’t ho hum about anything.

Once, when we were out at some club, she told people that I was Patty Hearst, incognito and trying to have some kind of normal life and she was a special agent assigned by the court to ‘keep an eye’ on me. Too funny!

Also, she introduced me to my husband. She was sure about us and she didn’t waste any time trying to get us together when we both became available. J On our wedding day, she said she felt like she had earned a special place in heaven because she introduced us and we fell in love. Cute, huh? I loved her.

She died from injuries she got in a car accident, in July of ’93. She was only 32. Oh, I’m not feeling melancholy or anything. I guess I was just wondering what she’d be like now. Where she would be living. If she would be married or if she would’ve had kids. I know she’s been gone a long time but I still think about her, mostly because she was so special and different from anyone I’ve ever known. I’m glad to have known her.