On May 1, 2019 I parallel parked and stepped out of my RAV 4 SUV and started to walk across the Main street towards the Delhi Diner.
“ Can I help you Mam” he said and I immediately realized that for the first time since the summer of 1961, I stood face to face with Golden Decker. The last time we saw each other I was 16 years old and he was 18. We’re now 74 and 77 ! If you have never experienced this type of reunion, I must tell you that it is a strange sensation. Old people stood where once there was youth!
Although I had connected with Golden Decker on Facebook several months beforehand it was something else altogether to be standing there in front of each other, face to face.
The “Foxy One “ (as Golden Decker had dubbed my cousin Sharon ) was coming around the vehicle from the curb side. I dare say that for Golden the Sharon-sighting reigned supreme! If you followed my blog entries entitled “The Decker Brothers” you’ll understand why. I quickly realized that we’d better move our reunion to the sidewalk if we didn’t want to be flattened.
We were a little late for the breakfast crowd and a bit early for lunch so we could claim any table in the down-home, country establishment. Golden sat on one side of the table and I sat on the other while Sharon excused herself to use the Ladies Room. When she returned Golden suggested she sit across the table from him, “ so I can look directly at your face! “ Our exteriors has changed rather dramatically during the 58 years since we last met but amazingly “who we were at our core” seemed to remain rock solid.
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