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Bella and Mia meet again at eight months old.

Bella at seven months.

Bella's littermates at four weeks old. I don't think they can even see yet.

The second dog from the right seems to have the same eye markings as Bella and so might be her.

I was in the yearbook class during my freshman year at high school (ninth grade). I don't remember much about it except that it was kind of dull and pretty much a waste of time (I did learn a little about print production and layout, but was re-acquainted with all that, and in far more detail, a couple years later when I studied graphic arts at Saddleback College at night and during summers). I don't even remember who the faculty advisor was in the center of this photo (I recall the faculty advisor as being a male teacher, a Mr Conklin).

I do remember the guy at lower left was name Meyers and he was always holding a camera; the girl in white sitting on the desk was a sophomore named Laura Hunter and I had a mild crush on her (but she had a boyfriend who was in the Navy); the girl in the back with the glasses lived on a catamaran yacht in Dana Point Marina with her parents where I visited them once, the circumstances of which visit completely escape me now. The guy with the glasses and curly hair in the chair at right was named Joel.

And that's all I can recall about this photo or the people in it. I don't even know how I got it or why I still have it. It was taken, I believe, to document the yearbook class for that year, and I could pull out my 1977 yearbook and get everyone's names, but I haven't opened the yearbook since 1977.

It's interesting to me that the kids don't really look all that different from kids of the same age today. The boys' hair is a little longer, but that's the only major difference I can see.

I didn't like high school, and was eager to get through with it and get out. But now I am a bit nostalgic about it. I reckon if I had my head screwed on straighter I could have really enjoyed it. Today I enjoy going to the local Costa Mesa, Estancia and Newport Harbor High School football games, and watching the kids having a good time. I never once attended a game when I was at Dana Hills, which is a pity