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Is there anyone from your past that you would love to see again?
I don't know if it's just me but it seems like there's a shitload of people from my childhood that I would love to see again. Is anyone else here like that too?
I remember one person in particular when I was about 5 or 6 yrs old. I just came to Canada and didn't speak a word of english. In my class there was no one I could talk to and therefore didn't have too many friends. A lot of kids in my class weren't too nice either.  I had a really hard time adjusting.
But there was this little girl that was the most popular and prettiest girl in the class. To this day I don't know exactly what made her talk to me but basically she was always there for me. Now that I thought about it I don't even know exactly how we were able to communicate LOL, but she tried to understand me the best she could .Kids would tease her everytime she was with me. Sometimes I felt some resentment from my other classmates when we were together .But yeah, she was the most genuine person I've ever met. It made that year so much more enjoyable.
Anyways, throughout that year Melony and I became best friends. We hung out together everywhere we went and found out that we had so much in common. We would play together and wrestle each other. One of our favourite things to do was to sneak into the backyard of a very mean neighbour in our neighbourhood. He has a cherry tree so we would always sneak into his backyard and climb up on his cherry tree and eat the cherries. He would always catch us and chased us off his yard with a shovel LOL.
Melony always brought a smile to my face and made me feel so good about myself and that there are wonderful people in a very cruel world. 
On one very special day Melony noticed that I really liked a ring that she was wearing on her finger (it was one of those toys that you can get at grocery stores when you put a quarter into the candy jar) She took it off and put it on my finger because she wanted me to have it as a token of our friendship. So I wore it around my finger from then on.
Now, we all done really stupid things when we were kids that you just can't explain why, but yeah here's one of them. 
I still remember this day vividly. One day, Melony had a really hard time talking to me and I couldn't understand why. She was sitting by the monkey bars and then her girlfriend Karen came up to me and said.
"Melony wants to ask you something but she's afraid too."
I was like "what is it?" She looks over but Mel wanted Karen to say it.
Karen says "Mel loves you and she wants to know if you will be her boyfriend?"  I was shocked and didn't know how to react. Now I was like 5 or 6 at the time and being as dumb as I was I screamed "THAT'S GROSS!!!!!! " I then threw the ring that she gave me to the floor and cracked it and then ran away to play football with the boys.
I still remember Melony picking up the ring crying. From that day on I felt really weird being around her and tried to avoid her as much as I could. This went on for a few months and then the following year I never saw her in my school again and I didn't know why.
I never really forgot her though. I realized later what an ass I've been and that I let something really special go away. It wasn't until a few years later that I found out what happened to Mel. On this day, Karen asked me to go with her to our school dance. As I was slow dancing with her, the subject of Melony came up. I asked her "what ever happened to Mel? did she transfered to another school?"
What Karen was about to tell me made my entire world cave in....
"Melony has a disease known as TB which is fatal. She wanted to tell you because you're the most important person in her life. You were her best friend but she also had a secret crush on you for a very long time, Mel always admired you. She and her family moved back to her country to be with relatives and family that following year."
All I could remember was me crying in Karen's arms uncontrollably. This was the first time I have ever cried for anybody. I realized what a jerk I have been and how much I miss her. A part of my life ended that night. I hated myself and nothing else mattered at that time.
To this day I still don't know where she is or if she is alive.
Sorry for the sappy story...but I've been thinking about her a lot lately. I know now that I really liked her too but didn't know it at the time. If only I could turn back time, things would be so different.
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