40 years after grade school, Gen X friends reunited. Their shared childhood crush was the only guy there.

40 years after grade school, Gen X friends reunited. Their shared childhood crush was the only guy there.

In every group of friends, you need a pragmatist, an anything-goes-er, a salt-of-the-earther, and a historian. I’m the latter, which can be tough because people don’t always like cameras, tape recorders, or people with notepads in their faces. But if I didn’t stick to my guns, you wouldn’t be reading this. Each archetype was represented in my group of childhood besties. This might be one of the reasons we have stayed close for decades. We have b…