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A Fun Monticello Reunion at the BYU Football Game

It's been like two years since I've been to a football game. My sports-a-holic roommate, Aaron, left Provo for the weekend to spend his weekend with the family in South SLC. He was kind enough to leave me his ticket.

A fortunate wrinkle in fate made my assigned seat only a couple of rows below 30 of my old friends from Monticello. It was so fun to enjoy the game with them. Julie happened to buy tickets with them because she is best friends with Janeen from Monticello.


The guy in blue is named Andrew and he always salutes me when we see each other because of the time we spent together last year watching Band of Brothers. I assigned everyone that watched with us a name and rank in the army. Andrew was an "Intelligence Officer" so our conversations always include subtle, coded messages about make-believe protocols.


This is only one of two pictures that I have of my old roommate Hunter. I told everyone to growl like a cougar. I think it represent us well. (I am so close to dislodging the remaining ill-will that I still bear towards Hunt for not doing his dishes.) BTW, that is Julie in the middle.
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  1. HeatherWed Sep 24, 08:03:00 AM MDT

    Glad you got to go to the game. RIck and I would LOVE to see a game in Cougar stadium again. Good, good times. Love you.

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  2. NoelleThu Sep 25, 06:30:00 AM MDT

    That looks like a lot of fun. It's always more fun to watch when BYU is whooping up like they have. I lived directly above Julie's cousin in Heritage Halls.

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