torry steven dwight
1.18.86 - 3.26.10
1.18.86 - 3.26.10
we didn't keep in very close touch after high school, but i don't have many memories from 8-12th grade that don't involve torry. i went to his funeral on Tuesday and was so completely overwhelmed by the realization that he's gone. thoughts of all the fun times came flooding back. tears came flooding out. i kept it together for most of the service, took all i had. i bawled the entire way home. he played a lead role in some of my most memorable years, and if i had to choose a theme, it would be laughter. i think anyone who knew him would agree. not a day went by with torry without it.
this is from my jr. high journal on 5.1.01.
sums up our friendship well i think.
more pics i dug up.
and a list of my favorite times.
using a brown sharpie to give people and things "moles"
making bad mood signs
making bump on eye signs after Shepin's eye bump
calling each other nicknames (torr and jenn jenn)
drawing all sorts of sheepy's
making the good place for our trash on the bus in california
saying it's a good place all the time
saying it's a good place in chinese all the time
eating peach flavored gummies from lee lee's
making sock puppets for history class and making one into a sheepy puppet
prank calling people from school and telling them to go catch their refrigerators
writing ridiculously long messages in each other's yearbooks
the scream song (jump around by house of pain)
riding in a limo through the movie theater parking lot
making up fake screen names and trying to mess with people
pinkersblue
renaming mrs. wallace big w
stealing big w's staples every day until she locked them up
stealing big w's turkey stuffed animal and holding it for ransom when she locked up her staples
buying amanda's bday present of castor oil, modeling clay, pepperoni stick, etc at the dollar store
singing twinkle twinkle in chinese
ditching everyone at disneyland
honking the horn for no reason
choosing random numbers to be the answers on our chem homework for mr. mellyn
comparing crazy mom stories
chawls tawget/kmawt/walmawt and his rolling backpack
ditching orchestra for taco bell runs
making up crazy stories for the security guards to let us out of the parking lot
being aimrats
making abbreviations like ridic and hilare
saying "wanna play" with a crazy look in our eyes
playing tricks on people using three way calling
myspacebarisbroken
boba
making up a song about potatoes in chinese
studying for bio all day and only remembering that people diagnosed with down syndrome have thick tongues
the stick game
eating guacamole 24/7
renaming mr. worsnop "worsnopii"
yelling dragon at the kid with the chinese symbol for dragon on his shirt everyday
blasting chinese and japanese pop music
making up chinese names for ourselves (toe lee mah)
talking on the phone about nothing all night long
catching up with long and interesting chats on google while bored and stuck on bedrest
laughing until crying then laughing some more
so glad this life is not the end.
sums up our friendship well i think.
more pics i dug up.
and a list of my favorite times.
using a brown sharpie to give people and things "moles"
making bad mood signs
making bump on eye signs after Shepin's eye bump
calling each other nicknames (torr and jenn jenn)
drawing all sorts of sheepy's
making the good place for our trash on the bus in california
saying it's a good place all the time
saying it's a good place in chinese all the time
eating peach flavored gummies from lee lee's
making sock puppets for history class and making one into a sheepy puppet
prank calling people from school and telling them to go catch their refrigerators
writing ridiculously long messages in each other's yearbooks
the scream song (jump around by house of pain)
riding in a limo through the movie theater parking lot
making up fake screen names and trying to mess with people
pinkersblue
renaming mrs. wallace big w
stealing big w's staples every day until she locked them up
stealing big w's turkey stuffed animal and holding it for ransom when she locked up her staples
buying amanda's bday present of castor oil, modeling clay, pepperoni stick, etc at the dollar store
singing twinkle twinkle in chinese
ditching everyone at disneyland
honking the horn for no reason
choosing random numbers to be the answers on our chem homework for mr. mellyn
comparing crazy mom stories
chawls tawget/kmawt/walmawt and his rolling backpack
ditching orchestra for taco bell runs
making up crazy stories for the security guards to let us out of the parking lot
being aimrats
making abbreviations like ridic and hilare
saying "wanna play" with a crazy look in our eyes
playing tricks on people using three way calling
myspacebarisbroken
boba
making up a song about potatoes in chinese
studying for bio all day and only remembering that people diagnosed with down syndrome have thick tongues
the stick game
eating guacamole 24/7
renaming mr. worsnop "worsnopii"
yelling dragon at the kid with the chinese symbol for dragon on his shirt everyday
blasting chinese and japanese pop music
making up chinese names for ourselves (toe lee mah)
talking on the phone about nothing all night long
catching up with long and interesting chats on google while bored and stuck on bedrest
laughing until crying then laughing some more
so glad this life is not the end.
3 comments:
You two got ridiculously crazy. :) I always loved hearing the stories about what you did. I'm glad that it's not the end, too.
loved this. thanks for the 'in memoriam.' By the way, hope you are well with baby and life! :-)
there were no memories of poston or MV that didn't involve torry. none at all... thanks for writing this and bringing back memories of all the good times (but you did forget the BIOLOGY test that was stolen hahah and the ball of lard! and tutoring with ms. jaekel hahah). i don't think i will, or any of us will ever, meet someone quite like him. he will be forever missed.
it was good seeing you again (twice in a year!) even though it was under such sad circumstances. next time i'm in town let's definitely get together again.
<3
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