When I was first trying to get out and meet girls I answered an ad in one of the papers.  I met a girl who I am still friends with now.  She got about twelve replies to her ad and so organised us all to go out to dinner together.  I met another girl there who I am still friends with now also and my best friend through her shortly after that.

     We ended up being a group of about 8 girls who were mostly in the process of coming out.  So we all used to hang out together and called ourselves “the girls”.  I still know all of them today although I’m not in touch with a couple of them but I know some of the others are. 

     Throughout the last ten years I have only kept in consistent contact with one of the girls, the one who became my best friend.   We have all travelled some very different paths in that time.   Through different careers, different relationships and some very different experiences.  Things always seem to have a habit of coming back around though. 

      This is one of those times in my life where I have faced some big changes in the last twelve months.  The end of a relationship being the top of that list.  Probably the next most important changes have been the ones that were to do with why I left the relationship.   In doing so I have gone back to some old haunts and changed the way I’ve been doing a lot of things and this has brought me back into contact with a lot of my old friends.