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RELATIONSHIPS

for better or worse

~[ationsfiips Whether spending time with one mon, or simply not getting along.

came and another meant being together 24 hours a Although some relationships came
day, seven days a week or just on week- to a bad end, people did not stay friends or
[ejt. rrfiey ends, relationships were important. When even stayed on speaking terms.
going out on a date some spent the entire "I had a year long relationship, it lasted
were night out to dinner, about three and a
half years. Then out
memora6[e a movie, and then of the blue she came
maybe even ice
parts of skating. Others up to me, punched
were happy with the me, and then broke
students idea of staying in up with me", senior

fives. and renting a Phillip Peters said.
movie.
"In a relationship,
By Melissa Beverly H i g h anything can hap-
school relation- pen. You have to
ships often lasted learn how to care for
quite a long time for others and espe-
some. "My longest cially make compro-
relationship was mises", senior Dal-
about six months, las Douglass said.
and we were basi- When it came to
cally just good dating, teenagers
friends", junior Tim realized that there
Larsen said. Some was a lot of work
broke up and their when it came to re-
relationships lationships, and it
Homecoming was a stayed as friends. was not easy all the time.
special occasion for "My longest relationship was one Those who seriously dated
students. Here seni ors
Shane Shulte and Sarah year. We were like best friends, and we learned from relationships and matured
Well s exchange flowers stayed friends, but he moved", sophomore when it came to handling the bad and the
at Wendy Hi cks' house Liz Garber said. Some found that the good situations of relationships. It taught
before thei r last high ending of a relationship was related to not those dating how to make compromises
sc hool Homecomi ng.
communicating, having nothing in com- and learn to live with their choices.

Sophomore Li z Garber
and Jamey Pandis enj oy
each oth er's company as
th ey spend time together
whil e on th e Missouri
River.

Senior Steve Holmes and junior Rebecca
Johnson relax in the hall together during
spirit week. Even if it came to spending
a second together, every precious second
counted. photo by Sara Lenz