"Friends help you move. True friends help you move bodies." --Internet folk wisdom

I guess these would need to be divided up, so, first,

High school.

• Matt Hearn -- What can I say about this guy? Best friend since 7th grade. Gun nut, singer, tuba player, guitarist, budding computer geek, badass, suburban cowboy and street crazy. The man.

• Skip "Stefan" Thomson -- He'll always be Skip to me. Baccanalian hedonist, red-headed Canadian, Latin percussionist, and partier. If my life were like "Dazed and Confused," this boy would be Slater.

• Milo "Brian Smith" Bloom -- the first of my high school group to get his own business cards. Also the most "mainstream" of my closer friends, but we the socially warped don't hold that against him. Cute girlfriend, too. There's a lot more, but he's got one hell of a thorough web page if you care.

• Sarah Kettner -- Got to know her mostly because for a long time she and Matt were quite the couple, but we've definitely become good friends in our own right. Her page doesn't do her justice, but then again, neither would any description I might attempt for her.

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