Curious.......how many neighbors do you consider like family?? [View all]

[a kennedy]

We've been in this neighborhood for 16 years...and still feel like "outsiders". Of course we're Green Bay Packer fans, and most neighbors are Viking fans........some are Packer fans, but there is a pretty big divide. Only reason we're here was our best friends found a home, and we found our home about four blocks from them. Now......after 16 years we're not friends we're actually just neighbors, just wave as we pass by their home, and the wife, my X kinda friend is dying. When we moved here in 2000 we did everything together, dinners, birthdays, vacations, in fact the best vacation we EVER had was with them. Then one beastly hot day, like 92 degrees, they were taking their boat out and I said sorry, can't go I'm dying here, I hate the hot weather. Shortly after that, we quit getting together. Miss them terribly......she's dying, doing ok but a short life line. Her husband is quite standoffish, when 14 years ago we were so close. I know, get over whatever happened and try to possibly restablish what we had. We've tried, and he won't go back. He doesn't want his wife to have much company because she's so sick......so we don't go visit. I e-mail her every week asking how she's doing, what's going on, etc. she sounds positive and we talk of her family, neighbors and medical stuff. But, it's not the same.......miss her terribly. We send flowers every month or so.....keep thinking only reason we're where we are is because of them. My husband and I are on our deck overlooking the Mississippi River having a cocktail, a pipeful of weed and listing to rock & roll from the 70's/ 80's missing our original friends.