I have been to all of my highschool reunions. The ten-year was a bit like an extension of the Senior Prom. Most of the same people sat or stood in the very same groups they always used to clique with long before.

But the twenty-year reunion was quite different. I think that nearly everyone felt differently about it. We had all been out in the world and had fought (and perhaps even lost) a few battles. It seemed as if most of us were working on our second marriages. We were now of the same world. (Of course, we always had been of the same world before but didn't recognize it then.) We could look at one another and see ourselves as just people; people who had shared a common experience long ago.

At my thirtieth reunion it was a even more relaxed. I think we were each grateful to get a glimpse of our old classmates again. I had long conversations with classmates with whom I doubt I had ever spoken at length before. I even took the opportunity to confess a crush I had once had for one of them. After all those years I finally got to dance with her! It was great.

It was while I was contemplating going to the thirtieth that I wrote this song which I had the opportunity to sing for my classmates that night:

Do You Remember Me?

Do you remember me?
How long has it been?
What a very nice surprise
To see your face again!

Do you remember me?
Do you recognize my face
Though so many years have passed
And we're in a different place?
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--Funny how the times we had
--Now seem so far away
--Like something that we dreamed last night
--But can't recall today.

Do you remember me?
Have the years been so unkind
That the one who you once knew
Has been left so far behind?

Do you remember me?
Though we haven't been in touch
Can't you see me here inside?
Have I really changed that much?

--Funny how the times we had
--Now seem so far away
--Like something that we dreamed last night
--But can't recall today.

Oh, take another look at me!
I hope that if you do
Then somehow you'll remember me
And I'll remember you.