David Self

Married with two teenagers left at home

December 27,1991

I have one Grandson at this moment but my oldest son and wife are expecting a baby in March I think. As of December the 31st we now know that it is going to be a boy. His name will be Grant Michael Self. I was proud to see he would have my middle name. Grant was born the last day of March in 2010 and he is a great looking boy. I love playing with both my grandsons and if God so wills, i will get to watch them grow up .

Well, it has been almost 4 years since I moved to North Texas and I have enjoyed being back. We own a nice home here in VA and I have one that will be going off to college next fall and one that will be the head drum major for the band starting in the summer at band camp. I have Addison's disease along with a lot of other health issues so it is not as easy to get around. I hope to be able to get to the 30 year reunion to see as many of you as I can. I regret losing contact with my friends. It would have been nice to watch your friends kids grow up with my kids. High School was for the longest time the high light of my life. Then in December of 91 I married this wonderful woman from Indiana and after almost 20 years I can say that being her husband has been the highest part of my life and to date continues to be so. I have connected up with some of my friends from back then and I am glad and sad all at the same time. I look and see that we have lost 31 people that we went to school with. I have lost others that did not go to school with me but were still the greatest friends a man could have. Too often I left things unsaid and the one thing I try to do now is to let them know how I feel about them while they are here. Once they are gone there are no more words or any showing of friendship. Take the time now to tell someone that you love them and then try showing them in a way they will understand. Tina, if you ever read this, I miss you and I wish I could have been here when Terry died. I wish I could have corrected my mistake and tell him how sorry I was for what happened. I am truly sorry for everything I did back then. I was wrong and I know it. Rick, your a great friend and I was not a good friend at all to you. You were honest and hard working and I took advantage of that situation and I am sorry for that. I wish I could remember all thing the things that I need to get straight but sad to say my mind is not what it should be and just can't remember every one and what I did to hurt them so please feel free to call and let me know if you are one that I owe for something I did or said and I will do my best to make it right. I was told that Miss Medlin has retired from teaching choir. She was the best teacher I have ever had. She was a take no crap kind of person. If you or your kids ever had her for choir then you know just what I mean.

I had the best friends in school. They told me the truth and helped keep me in line. I know I was not the best friend to have at times so I take my hat off to all those that put up with me back then. I was getting high all the time and two of my best friends came and had a talk with me about it. They told me they would not let me compete with the Choir if I did not stop. Well, I did stop for a while and went to contest with them. They were true friends. There was a girl that went to a special class because she was deaf. I forget her name but I used to enjoy talking to her. She was a crack up. I had a pare of shorts on one time that had a mark that looked like someone had kissed them with a lot of lipstick on. She got the biggest laugh out of that and every time I saw her after that she would always ask if anyone had been kissing my shorts. It may sound silly but that is one of my fonder memories. She was nice to me and she was very smart. She would sign for the choir and that was very cool.

California, Michigan, Florida, New Mexico, and a lot of other states that I can't spell. LOL