About a boy I once knew....

I was just thinking about this boy I once knew back in the 70's... the thing is that I never did really get to know him very well and I really don't even remember what his real name was.... my friends back then had a rather derogatory nickname for him. He was a lot younger then my group of friends and he use to follow us a round because I guess we were the cool kids. I remember lots of discussions on how we could ditch this kid and go party and whatnot (it was the 70's after all) A number of years later, when I was in my 20's, I ran into this kid again at a party... I apologized to him about how we treated him when he was a kid and he said it was no big deal. That was they last time I saw him... about a week later he died in a car accident. What I wonder about now is why I never took the time to get to know him back then. He was just looking for a friend and I likely would have been a good one. I don't recall ever even thinking about him back then, one way or another, other then maybe what the other kids decided to do was fine by me.... I suppose that I was preoccupied with my own stuff back then. I suppose we all have regrets... that are lots of people from back in the day that I wish I had spent more time with and quite a few that I wish I had spent less time with lol International Boylove Day BoyWiki