Today, my dance class has "broken up" until September and this afternoon we had the best laugh ever, not about anything in particular but just because we could
About half the class are relatively young as is the teacher who is the same age as my eldest daughter who is thirty five.
The others are around my age so in between practising our 'camels' and 'figures of eight' the older ones amongst us kept reminiscing about when we were teenagers, the things we did, the people we met, the music we liked and the clothes we wore.
We giggled like teenagers and felt a kindredship which was pleasing 'cos when I was younger I was never into the "group thing" and didn't really have many close female friends.
As it is though, now in my dotage, I take pleasure from being in the sole company of women this one afternoon a week.
The younger girls looked on bemusingly and became eager to resume dancing so the teacher clapped her hands for order and said
"Come along now girls, get a grip and let's all do a shiver."
We collapsed into fits of giggles once more at the irony of her words, after all what is more hilarious than a bunch of middle-aged women in full length skirts and jingly scarves giving all our wobbly bits a treat in a five minute shiver, lol
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This is for all the women in my dance class and especially my two lovely sisters(who aren't in my dance class)

THIS SAYS IT ALL

Time passes
Life happens
Distance separates
Children grow up
Jobs come and go
Love waxes and wanes
Men don't call when they say they will
Hearts break
Parents die
Colleagues forget favours
Careers end.

BUT.....
Girlfriends are there
no matter how much time
and how many miles are between you

A girlfriend is never farther away than needing her can reach.