It's always fun to reminisce about growing up with family and friends..and regardless of what part of the country you grew up in….the stories are always so similar..

For ex. the other day I was hanging out with a friend and he pulls out one of my favorite arts & crafts that we did as a kid…I'm not sure if you're familiar with “gimp”..but it's the colorful plastic string that we used to make key chains out of! He couldn't believe that other people he mentioned it to had no idea what it was!

and you're still close by to me…with you in Laurel..I'm one town over!

I didn't have time to read the entire post, but I have been in love with that song since I was a little girl, which is when it first came out. I knew even then that I would miss the neighborhood I grew up in, even though people from my “good school” said my neighborhood was ghetto. <Although, most of the people on my block owned their homes, even if it wasn't much it was there's> And even though we had some rough times on my street and the violence was getting way out of hand, post-Katrina my street was one of the first to bounce back. Even though my family has moved on from there, I was too proud.

It was the best of times, and no matter how far I get in life I was always remember it. I can't even begin to count the number time my family gather at my sister's house and talk about “them days”.

Sorry for the long comment, but that song has ALWAYS had a spot in my heart!

It's funny how it's like that in many cities around the country, one side of the street is nice and then you go over a couple of blocks and it turns from Sugar to Shit.