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writes:Two childhood sweethearts. . Looked me up after twenty years.. One grade school kept in touch more than the other from Jr high.. they have children and our grandparents. .and from different states .. I finally have a four old daughter and am not married to her father... really why would they want me??? After all these years ?? No... they don't know each other! ? Reply to this Question
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reader, So_Very_Confused +, writes (28 May 2014):
 I doubt they "WANT you" per se. It's more about wondering what happened to so and so...
Facebook makes it so easy to find old friends. I have recently reconnected with some friends from when I was a young teen and we have dinner a couple of times a year.
IF you wonder why.. ask them.
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reader, maisy1  +, writes (27 May 2014):
I agree with what Mark1978 and Honeypie have said - Its a nostalgic thing. A nostalgia for a more fun time in their lives. Of course we look back on these things with a more biased and rose tinted way.sometimes when things get tough in life, and we endure complications, stress and problems, like we all do in adult life, we look back upon and miss our childhood or teenage relationships. We look back to a more innocent, less serious time in our lives when our lives seemed so much easier and more relaxed. It could be that they are just catching up with you and wanted to see what you are up to. I certainly wouldn't read to much into the fact that your sweethearts from school are back in touch. Its not like you are the same person now as you were back then, plus your life will have changed a lot, as will theirs. Its not like they could just walk back into your life after two decades and pick up where they left off.To be fair, I have a lot of people from my childhood on Facebook and most of them only added me and my friends to bump up the friendship count. Today I had a guy I sat next to at work years ago for about a week send me a friend request, it can be flattering to be remembered but there is an element of it being for the wrong reasons.x
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reader, Mark1978 +, writes (26 May 2014):
 when times are hard people reminisce to a simpler time in their life, when things such as relationships seemed so much easier and more naive.
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reader, CMMP +, writes (26 May 2014):
They found themselves single and it's easier to rekindle an old flame than start a new one.
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reader, WhenCowsAttack +, writes (26 May 2014):
I'm friends on Facebook with several of my exes, including my high school sweetheart. He is a great guy, we just drifted apart. Many years later, we are both with the love of our lives, and we enjoy seeing each other's family photos and sometimes reminiscing about silly things we did (not romantic things, just goofy things everyone does in high school). It is entirely innocent.
Don't read too much into it. Unless they're specifically hitting on you, it's probably just a blast from the past and that they have fond memories of you.
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reader, Honeypie + ♥, writes (26 May 2014):
 Nostalgia? Did they try and "hook up" with you or rekindle an old friendship?
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