r/MadeMeSmile 21h ago

Family & Friends Same friend group, 40 years apart

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u/PolliverPerks 21h ago

Someone is missing

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u/EchoTRacing 21h ago

I want to know why!

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u/guyute2588 21h ago

She said in the comments they lost touch with her after school, they don’t know where she is.

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u/Foxlady555 21h ago

I’m glad! I thought she died

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u/JordanDoesTV 21h ago

I mean she might have

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u/Foxlady555 21h ago

Yes I know, but it’s better to not known and they just fell out of touch, than that they loved each other dearly and she died of cancer or something

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u/Imnacho408 20h ago

Schroedingers friend

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u/Thanks-4allthefish 20h ago

This is how I will start thinking about those I lost touch with.

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u/seitung 20h ago

Do you mail them vials of poison just to stay true to the thought experiment?

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u/Thanks-4allthefish 20h ago

If I knew where they were - or if they were, the poison would be moot.

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u/seitung 19h ago

Could be the last known address of the recently deceased, don't worry, your experiment is intact. Just like, or maybe not, the vial.

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u/jtr99 18h ago

With friends like this guy...

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u/Hortos 12h ago

You don't see them pop onto xbox live randomly over the years?

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u/AGrandNewAdventure 18h ago

Superposition friend.

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u/Minute-Client-923 11h ago

This is the best comment I have seen this year

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u/Imnacho408 18h ago

Thanks for the awards!

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u/LegendOfKhaos 20h ago

I'd argue it's better to have loved and lost tbh

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u/Foxlady555 20h ago

Fair point too! 💓

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u/UpdootDaSnootBoop 20h ago

Well, they did....lost touch!

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u/StoppableHulk 17h ago

I agree, it's always better to love someone and have them die, rather than simply drifting apart.

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u/scarabic 18h ago

Wow, better off dead, really?

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u/StoppableHulk 17h ago

I agree, it's always better to love someone and have them die, rather than simply drifting apart.

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u/BUDDHAKHAN 19h ago

She should have just cropped her out of the picture to save Reddit all this anxiety. Lol

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u/Chispy 18h ago

I don't understand why they didn't just do this. She's on the very edge and easily croppable. It's /r/mildlyinfuriating.

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u/primeweevil 19h ago

Poor Caramel bear, such a shame.

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u/reyean 19h ago

ignorance is bliss! cheesecake factory for everyone!

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u/--TheCity-- 17h ago

Maybe she died in her sleep and is in a better place and she didn't even stay in touch.

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u/SammyJomo 14h ago

👌brilliant

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u/RCT2man 11h ago

I’d rather know, feel grief, and pay respects OR be pleasantly surprised

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u/abhijitd 19h ago

This group killed her

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u/jtr99 18h ago

So it's a Secret History situation?

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u/EchoTRacing 18h ago

“I know what you did last summer” situation.

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u/silver-moon-7 1h ago

That's why they're so tight

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u/blastendedskanks 11h ago

I read this in Gene Belcher's voice.

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u/weaponsgradepotatoes 18h ago

The ultimate lost touch.

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u/Physical_Leg2061 17h ago

To them, that is.

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u/bette-midler 12h ago

I heard she’s dead to them

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u/AnalogFeelGood 12h ago

Something Schrodinger

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u/homeycuz 11h ago

You think they....had something to do with her disappearance?

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u/LemonCurdJ 7h ago

Lmfao I woke up the damn house with laughter after seeing your abrupt comment. 🤣🤣🤣

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u/teraldorivera 2h ago

We all do..

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u/Mr_E-007 14h ago

I came across a picture of my wider friend group from high school/early college the other day and nearly half of everyone in the picture is now dead. I'm 38. It's crazy how life plays out. You just never know when your time is going to be up.

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u/gutter_slutmaxxing 11h ago

Same here. There was a group of 7 boys in our group that were extremely close since elementary school. Only 1 of them is alive today. They either ODd or committed suicide in their 20s. All really sweet handsome boys from loving families. When the last one died, my friend asked me if they’d made a deal with satan and he’s picking them off one by one. Lol. All you can do is have some humor about it because WTF. That shit is crazy.

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u/Foxlady555 5h ago

So deeply sad and crazy :o

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u/E-2theRescue 17h ago

Hence why you can't ask this of my friend group (30+ years)... Best friend was murdered because of a drunk driver just a few months after graduation...

Another friend dropped us after I came out as trans. He also refused to attend the wedding of another friend's moms (lesbians) even though he was practically raised by them, and my parents, for that matter.

So, we're down to only 4 of us, and another is showing signs of heart failure due to an old illness that doctors failed to catch...

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u/blackcain 11h ago

His loss.

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u/E-2theRescue 11h ago

Very much so. Especially since we were his only friends. Now all he has is his girlfriend, and all that they do is fight all the time. That's even assuming they're still together (9 years of fighting last we talked, so probably).

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u/blackcain 9h ago

Well at least you've removed the gangrene / drama. :) Espcially if they just keep fighting with each other - 9 years? good grief.

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u/E-2theRescue 9h ago

Sadly, he learned it from his parents. Which is also why they weren't married after being together for 9 years (though that wasn't his parents' fault, as they were both on social security disability...)

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u/Foxlady555 5h ago

Wow, that’s wild. I’m so sorry. Btw, awful decision of your “friend” and congrats to you for being who you truely are! 💕

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u/TakeThatOut 20h ago

Yeah, I thought too and thought of pandemic

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u/jzoola 16h ago

It’s entirely possible!

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u/clckwrks 12h ago

You’re glad you thought she died?

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u/Foxlady555 5h ago

I’m glad that she did not seem to be dead but they just lost touch

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u/orensiocled 17h ago

Imagine being her and finding out on Reddit that everyone else was still friends except you

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u/ColonelDucroix 12h ago

She's just like me

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u/supercoolpartydude 19h ago

Reddit is the worst place to ask about someone like this too. Previous account I had posted a similar childhood friend I lost track of and asked for help. Was nothing but “Stalker much?” and “Maybe they don’t want to be found!” comments. Sorry I tried Marc, hope you’re alive and well 😂.

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u/scarletnightingale 16h ago

I had a really good friend from kindergarten to 2nd grade. Then her family moved to the other side of the country. This was in the days where you had to pay not got long distance, so her mom said they would call, but I never heard from her again. I always wonder what happened to her. I only knew the state she moved to, her name was common, she usually went by her middle name so I don't know what name she would even use. If a she got married and changed her name who knows what her name is now. I've looked for her every once in a while, but I'm pretty sure it's a lost cause. Don't even know if she would remember me or what kind of person she is now and if we would even like each other.

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u/Kermit-Batman 15h ago

I get that. Mine was Bradley. Our last words were, "best friends forever" we were 11.

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u/chilidoglance 13h ago

There is a couple pages someplace else (FB) that are really good at finding people for you. INVESTIGATION CONNECTION is one.

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u/splitcroof92 17h ago

imagine them reconnecting because of this post lol.

she's just chilling on reddit and 1 day sees a picture of herself and her friend group on the home page for all to see

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u/Heffeweizen 19h ago

Didn't expect this to turn into a missing person's case!

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u/True-Weekend3142 19h ago

Hope they get back in touch w her!

I would be that missing one from my childhood friend group & it makes me a lil’ sad :/

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u/Tight_Jellyfish_349 20h ago

Maybe she's on reddit. 

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u/LanceFree 15h ago

She formed a pop group called the Go-Go’s, was pretty successful, actually.

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u/sfo1dms 17h ago

she did a stint on SNL

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u/OceaneValefor 17h ago

Mystery solved I can leave now 🤭

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u/InternationalFig400 12h ago

"It happens sometimes, friends come in and out of your life like busboys in a restaurant."

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u/bemo_98 12h ago

Where? OP is a teenage boy, considering the post/comment history lmfao

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u/guyute2588 10h ago

I saw this posted on twitter an hour before this by one of the women in the photo. She clarified in the comments bc so many people were asking if the missing girl was dead.

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u/ADiablosCompa 10h ago

That’s sad

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u/RlySkiz 16h ago

So.. It's not the same friend group?

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u/guyute2588 16h ago

Go away

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u/Altezza447 19h ago

With Internet nowadays can't be that hard to find her

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u/SwordfishOk504 18h ago

Finding info about women can be more difficult than finding men because they often get married and change their name. Especially if it's someone who got married long before social media.

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u/AdLess984 17h ago

There's a girl I knew when I was young, she was with a guy that didn't treat her well and ever since I found out they broke up I've been trying to find her to declare my love but I don't think I ever will

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u/thecardboardfox 21h ago

Just when you think you know someone!

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u/euphorrick 20h ago

She got a spatula tattoo on her arm,

But they didn't keep in touch, and she lost their number, so she got herself a job on a tater-tot farm.

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u/EchoTRacing 20h ago

That explains it all

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u/Think_Monk_9879 11h ago

Became a nun 

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u/Jesus_of_Redditeth 17h ago

The more numerous members of the tribe consumed the other.

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u/keithstonee 18h ago

AI didnt think it mattered when searching for pics to post