Stamped: February 6th, 2007 | Toggle Similar
Tagged: neuroses.

Katie Arnold was my best friend in 5th grade. I actually met her in 4th grade when we were both the new kids. I was a complete bitch to her on the playground. I used to roll "Mean Girls" style but came out of that little phase around 7th grade. Katie and I became friends the next year because we were in the same 5th grade and we pretty much stayed really good friends until high school. Then she discovered sex and pot and cigarettes and I was still under the impression that everyone under the age of 30 were virgins. Katie was one of those girls who wanted to be all grown-up and I was content being a teenager and acting like one. At our high school graduation she couldn't wait for the charade to be over. I, on the other hand, was sad to be leaving–I thought school was fun.

She was always the pretty one–she could sing and draw and guys loved her from the time we were kids. We got to high school and I stayed gangly and awkward, she just got prettier. We had a lot of firsts together–I smoked my first cig with her, I saw my first rated-R movie with her. And once at my 11th birthday party, she ran headfirst into the sliding glass doors to the patio at my house and left a huge crack that stayed in that door for the next 6 years, until my dad closed the patio in and made it an extension of our den.

We parted ways after high school. She went to college out of state and I learned how to be a party girl at the University of Georgia. I don't think I've talked to her at all since my sophomore year of college which was definitely almost 6 years ago. Once, maybe 3 or so years ago I was in North Carolina visiting my then-boyfriend's family. I was out at a bar with some of his friends and it turns out this one girl was Katie Arnold's current roommate at college. Besides that, my old best friend has been MIA. None of our old school friends know what happened to her, her mom has moved away from our hometown.

About a week ago, a friend sent me the pic you see below (he was google stalking) and it just started me to wondering what happened to her. I hadn't really thought about her in a couple of years, but now I'm curious.

So. . . have you seen this girl?

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