I still have 3 friends from grade school. One I see often, we live about 30 minutes away from each other, we talk on the phone all the time and are always emailing each other. Another friend, lives 15 minutes away from me, I see her once in a while, we chat every now and then. And another friend lives in OH, she moved here when we were in 6th grade, she stayed here for 6 weeks before her family had to move again. We still keep in touch via email and letters and every now and then we'll chat on the phone. I think its amazing how we knew each other for a short period of time and all these years later we still keep in touch