To My Old High School Friend - Robin Williams
Oh Robin my friend, I am writing this to you in the present tense not the
past,
because to me you will always be here with us, now, and forever. I do however
want to say a few things about when I first met you back in 1966, we were both
high school kids, in Marin County you were a Redwood High student in Larkspur
and I was a student at Drake High in San Anselmo, our schools had a huge
rivalry between them, and there was one time when some kids from Redwood
came by Drake and wrote "Redwood Rules" in red paint all over our school
buildings, so some kids from Drake snuck over to Redwood and put green dye
in
Redwoods Olympic pool. Well, a bunch of kids from both schools decided to
have a fight, well, you and I were smart and we decided to go downtown with
some other kids from both schools to our favorite pizza place and call a truce,
later some of the kids who were in the fight came in with black eyes and bloody
lips and they were so angry with us that we didn't show up at the fight. I recall
this Robin because you took over with your supreme gift of gab and humor and
completely calmed everyone down. You were absolutely wonderful. You would
have made an awesome U.S. Secretary of State.
In later years, we both went to school at College of Marin. You were a Drama
Student and I saw your immense talent for acting even then. I remember one of
the times I picked you up in my 1963 Galaxie 500, you were hitchhiking, and
you started making all these weird sounds, I asked what's that man, you
proceeded to tell me you were an alien from another planet and went into this
rant that had me laughing so hard I had to pull over to keep from having an
accident! Robin, I consider myself so lucky to have met and known you back
when we were just kids. I know that you are still with us and are probably
reading my words as I write them. My old friend, the world has quite literally
been blessed with your presence, your humor, your brilliant mind. I will not say
I will miss you, because to me you will always be here, but I will say that I
LOVE YOU BROTHER, always and forever! Robert
ROBIN WILLIAMS - KING OF COMEDY And THOUGHTFULNESS!
Copyright © Robert Gruhn | Year Posted 2014
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