My friend Jane

Something made me think about Jane today. I guess the throw back Thursday on facebook. I was looking through old pictures and found one of her family.  I put it on facebook.


I met Jane  at Roby High School in the 9th grade. I lived in Longworth at the time. That is 12 miles outside of Sweetwater not far from  Roby. It only had one post office and two little stores when I lived there. Now it has even less. And that is where I got that country twang I got even today.


Jane has a sister and a brother. I spent the night at her house lots of times that year. I kind of had a crush on her brother. My family moved a lot back then. In the 10th grade we moved to Brownwood.


I don't remember exactly when I met Jane again but when I married my first husband and we lived in Sweetwater I seen her again. She came over to see us pretty often. She let me use her J.C.Penney card to get all new curtains for my house.


Then I moved to Fort Worth. My husband and I were not getting along very well . One day I loaded up the car with the kids and took off for San Angelo where my parents lived. I had three kids and I didn't know it then but I was a month pregnant with the 4th one. I stayed with them for a few months until I was able to get a house. Working at A&W Root Beer carrying frosty mugs when I was 6 months pregnant.


I got me a small little house with three kids in one bedroom. That was all before Melanie was born. I started taking the kids to church there and got baptized pregnant. After Melanie was born I met Jane again. She was living in San Angelo. She was single, I was single. We decided to move in together. I stayed home with the kids while she worked. She had two boys. It was the ideal arrangement. We stayed together for about a year or so then I decided to move to Sweetwater.


I met my second husband and we got married. A few years down the road Jane ended up getting married and she moved back to Sweetwater. I seen her often. She had twins, a boy and a girl. My husband and I ended up getting a divorce and then I moved to Fort Worth.


While I was there I got a call form Jane one day. She had an accident and was paralysed from the waist down. I felt so bad for her. We kept in contact by phone calls. I was single still and needed a car. She loaned me $2,000 and I got my first new car. It was a CRV Honda. I made payments of a $150 a month to pay her back.


Jane and Doug came down to see my new house I had just gotten. It was so good to see my friend again. Her husband waited on her hand and foot. She had a van she could drive her wheel chair up in.
They left the next morning and we still talked on the phone.


One morning Doug called me and said Jane was gone. He said she just gave up. I liked one payment on the car to her and I paid him. I sent flowers for her funeral. She was the best friend I ever had.


With all the moving around we both done I don't know how we kept in touch all those years but we did. I miss my friend Jane.