Dear Folks, I just sent the following message to one of my oldest girlfriends from the 1940s. This is what I said to her: "Marg, I don't know if you read in the newspaper that our Ann Everhart died on November 10. I read her obituary in the Niagara Gazette yesterday. Apparently she was buried today. She was so much a part of our teenage years together. You, me, Marilyn and Ann were inseparable when it came to horseback riding on Grand Island or up at the Rec in LaSalle. Now not only is Marilyn gone but so is Ann. That just leaves the two of us. Both of them were too young to die and leave us. vee" Now regarding the four of us, we were the same age (I'm now 72) and when we were 16 and 17 years old we LIVED to go horseback riding at the Wa-Bak-Ranch on Long Road, Grand Island, on Saturdays come rain or snow! And on Saturday evenings the four of us would go up to the Rec (teanage recreational center) in LaSalle. There we would hope to dance with our heart throb of the month (whether he knew that any of us were even alive!) but occasionally one of us would get lucky and dance with HIM to "In the Mood" or "The Old Lamplighter." Oh how exciting and giggly it was up at the Rec and oh how daring the four of us were riding horseback. Trust me, Mother would have been shocked at the chances we took on horseback. TRUST ME! So now Ann is gone as well as Marilyn. However, Marg and I still have the memories of the very close friendship that the four of us had and nothing can take them away. Not even time or death. vee