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Name of favourite friends from childhood

57 replies

ThunderFog · 09/06/2026 21:13

What was the first name of the nicest person / people you've lost touch with from primary schooldays?

I will start with Jane. Best friend for three years then her parents got jobs in another city. We wrote to each other for about ten years.

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Gonnagetgoingreturnsagain · 09/08/2026 11:29

Tracey, Carole, Jennifer

plasticplate · 09/08/2026 10:45

Lisa. We reconnected on FB but sadly she died a few years ago.

thebeautifulsky · 08/08/2026 17:53

Susan, Alice, Wendy and Angela were my best friends.

Our least favourite 'friend' who I remember to this day was Julie! Shudders

MrsMoastyToasty · 08/08/2026 17:22

Theresa
Yvonne
Nicola

All three moved away when their parents split up and remarried. I didn't go to the same secondary school as the rest of my year group. It was the 70s so unless you had a address or phone number it was nigh on impossible to keep in touch

MayWelland · 08/08/2026 17:22

forgive my paranoia but isn’t this gold dust for people mining for answers to common security questions?

itsgettingweird · 08/08/2026 17:19

Laura.

lived opposite the school we went to and my mum worked at.

Spent every day after school together until I moved at 11.

ithinkilikethislittlelife · 08/08/2026 17:18

Marina and Rhian

Blondiney · 08/08/2026 17:16

Samantha

Asmileisworthathousandwords · 08/08/2026 16:59

My very first friend was called Caroline.

garlictwist · 04/08/2026 04:47

I had three close friends from primary in the 80s that I have lost touch with. Freya, Imogen and Alice. Would love to see them again if they’re out there!

SnowFrogJelly · 04/08/2026 00:30

Caroline

Funnys · 03/08/2026 23:44

Iona, Melinda, Katherine and Charlotte

FourCatMama · 03/08/2026 23:36

Kathy. We’re still friends today, over 60 years later!!!!

MyNameIsTina · 13/06/2026 14:24

Pamela

augustusglupe · 13/06/2026 01:19

Carole. We were best friends in primary. Although we went to the same secondary we were put in different classes and got new friends.

BlackCatBea · 13/06/2026 01:11

Melissa

WoahThreeAces · 13/06/2026 00:52

Ayesha (EYE-sha). She moved away when we were 9 or 10. She was my best friend. I think about her sometimes- I'm in my 50s now

SnowFrogJelly · 13/06/2026 00:50

Eleanor

Hazeltwig · 13/06/2026 00:48

Lavinia

FourCatMama · 13/06/2026 00:34

I live in such a small place in Louisiana we all keep with each other!

Cobrakainerd · 12/06/2026 22:46

Veronica and Helen

HorribleHisTories15 · 12/06/2026 22:40

Molly

Luddite26 · 12/06/2026 22:30

holachicatita · 12/06/2026 17:40

Did it suit her? 😜

Yaaaay ! I should say it never suited her but it did!

moonshinepoursthroughmywindow · 12/06/2026 19:27

Lynne
Lisa
Jane

holachicatita · 12/06/2026 17:40

Luddite26 · 09/06/2026 22:46

Her name was Deborah.

Did it suit her? 😜