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Normally we don't talk about such small-time news, but in this rare event I decided to make an exception... for you see I went to kindergarden, primary school and highschool with Sarah Donkers.

I laughed out loud when I heard on the grape-vine that she was arrested for drug-dealing. I really wasn't surprised at all.

I remember Sarah Donkers quite vividly. I even remember having a crush on her in grade 7 and then later hating her guts by grade 8 (and eventually not caring at all about her by grade 10).

Things change, but sometimes people do not.

In my opinion Sarah Donkers was a slacker. Always was. Likely still is. But she must have at least made an effort to grow $5.8 million CDN worth of marijuana plants. So maybe she didn't slack off too much.

I also recall hearing a rumour on the grape-vine that she studied Agricultural Studies (a bird course) at the University of Guelph... perhaps her degree in growing things helped her manage so many marijuana plants.

Who knows? Perhaps it was karma. She wasn't always the nicest person.

It is anyone's guess why she got caught. Whether she DESERVES to go to prison for making such a stupid mistake is a totally different matter. You'd think by now she would have learned some lessons.

I snooped around online and managed to find this photo of Sarah Donkers winning 3rd place at a dog show:

Apparently in addition to marijuana she is also really into dogs these days. Rottweilers and so on.

C'est la vie!

I sometimes wonder what has become of the students/friends I knew in kindergarden, primary school and so on. I know that at least one of them is now an alcoholic (not me thankfully), that another one of them was in a motorcyle accident and busted his hand, that several have had kids, got married and even been divorced.

That's life and to be expected.

I've even pondered organizing a get-together with people from my grade 8 class (you go through kindergarden and 8 years of primary school with people and you do tend to get attached). I really don't care much about the vast majority of people (hundreds of them) that I knew from two different highschools. I've made an effort to keep in contact with some friends from highschool but otherwise they just seem to have all dropped off the face of the planet. With rare exceptions.

So maybe Sarah Donker's life isn't what she expected it to be. Certainly the 24 or so other people have turned out somewhat okay, right?

I even went to ClassMates.com and logged in and discovered that myself, Sarah Donkers and Russel Hurst were the only ones who had bothered to create profiles on there. Kinda pathetic actually.

Anywho, whatever happened to all those people?

Will Rodney Ireland ever run in politics? Will Emily Grant ever write a book (or admit I'm her second cousin)? And a myriad other what-ifs.

These aren't thoughts I dwell on very much. I think I'm much more curious about my friends from highschool.

But curiousity has limits.

Sometimes you don't WANT to know the bad things.

Like Sarah Donkers being busted. Does she deserve it? Probably. But it is still not a good event. It is a sign that life isn't always a happy ending.

Frankly, regardless of how I feel about people who I struggle to remember all their names, I still hope that they have changed for the better and have a happy ending.

The End