That's when the irony hit me...
most everyone knows by now, but for those that don't, in his freshman year of high school brad hoppe shot himself behind his home leaving a younger brother, a father and a mother behind.
brad and i were best friends as children and due to fighting between his mother and my father we drifted apart when i was around seven years old.
today i was reading a list of "121 Things a TRUE 90s Kid would Know" and about halfway through i realized that about half of the things on that list linked back to brad in my memory. i miss childhood. i miss playing until the sun went down. i remember we had the greatest trick to stay out later, we'd make sure all of our moms would come out and start talking and we knew we'd have at least another hour.
i want to keep this short because i'm distracted, but i wanted to remember brad today.
-katie
ps: the list is really great if you were a kid in the 90s, so look it up on facebook :D
Feel free to check out mine:
http://theboyfriendshopper.blogspot.com/