Tuesday, May 28, 2019
Terri and I were childhood friends. I spent quite a bit of time in her family's home when I was young. I remember having dinner with the family. Her Mom sometimes babysat for my sisters and I. In 7th or 8th grade during gym class, I wasn't paying attention to the teacher. She was calling "Sara", which is one of my sister's names, and had I been paying attention, I would have realized that she meant me and I would have responded and not corrected her. As I was not paying attention, she got agitated and began to raise her voice, still calling out to "Sara". Terri was standing next to me, we had known each other our whole lives and she sort of looked out for me, being slightly older. I was very shy. Terri raised her hand and stated to the teacher "There is no one in this class named "Sara". The teacher looked at her then looked at me, who by now realized that she had been trying to get MY attention and then she calmly apologized, called me by my own name and asked to me to whatever it was that she had wanted in the first place. That teacher never again called me by my sister's name. Thanks to Terri, I wasn't just one of those "Senf" girls, I was Tammi! Terri always made me laugh. It was sad that we grew apart as people sometimes do as time passes, we age and move away to begin families of our own. I will never forget her friendship.
