You've Got to be a Friend to Have a Friend
Every year, I dust off this “first day of first grade” photo taken in front of then-Crayton Elementary School. It makes me thankful for these girls and the many other friends who have walked with me, loved me and showed up for me along the way. First day of first grade. Crayton Elementary These five little girls became friends as very young children primarily because of proximity living in the same neighborhood. (Front row: Libby Heath, Nora McArthur Fowles. Back row: Katherine DuBose Duvall, Nancy Marchant Harris, Reba Hull Campbell). Our mothers were friends, too, because of proximity, church and family connections. I’ll always be grateful to our moms for the playgroups, carpools, spend-the-night adventures, the “six for $24 dress specials” from White’s at Richland Mall, birthday parties, watchful eyes and family trips that we all probably took for granted. By the time these five little girls reached this first day of first grade milestone, we’d known each other the better pa