- We were/still are 27 in 1999. As far as I can tell, there's 15 months between our oldest (Liz) and youngest (Mel). Again, if I did the math right, Liz and Colleen are 16 days apart.

- Liz, Melissa, and Elizabeth have all journaled (or still do) under a pseudonym.

- Speaking of which... Liz and Elizabeth have the same name, and Melissa used to journal under the name "Beth."

- We all appear to live within a 200 mile radius of Philly.

- Melissa is dating someone who was at law school with Elizabeth.

- We are all animal lovers (be they stuffed or live).

- Colleen and Elizabeth have started state quarter collections, and put bicentennial ones in just for fun.

- Melissa and Liz are theater-types, and Elizabeth used to be one.

- Colleen and Liz used to play the clarinet.

- Elizabeth's middle name is Marie, Melissa's confirmation name is Catherine, and Liz considered Marie for her confirmation name but took Catherine instead.

- Liz's full name is Elizabeth Anne, and Elizabeth's mother was still considering Ann Elizabeth while she in labor.

- We all have body image issues, exercise issues, food issues, and boyfriend-or-lack-thereof issues!!

-- Anonymous, October 06, 1999

Answers

Hmm, Melissa lives within 5 miles of my oldest friend from high school. And I think Liz lives relatively close to where my sister and her boyfriend are having a house built.

And although I never journalled under a pseudonym, I journalled in complete secret from anyone I knew for almost a year. To this day, Dave is the only one who knows of it, but he does not read it.

And Elizabeth and I both know what bucket drinks are!

-- Anonymous, October 06, 1999

Melissa said this in a recent entry, "...how my idea of an ideal man is one that will buy me little things that I would love but would never remember to buy myself,like some good sturdy metal measuring cups."

Dave actually did *THIS*. We were in Williams Sonoma, one of my favorite stores, and I really admired the measuring cups there. I didn't acutally *need* them because we had some but when we got outside the store he said, "I'll be back in a minute." He went back in the store and bought them for me :)

Love, Love, love him.

-- Anonymous, October 10, 1999

Liz and I attended the same college (albeit only for one semester) and we both had Jewish stand-up comedian boyfriends.

-- Anonymous, October 06, 1999