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Equivalent Harvard bar: The love child of a Quincy Grille that serves Bud Light, and Grendel?...
Jody Kraus was Bud Shipley's girl from the time the two teens met back in 1933 in Bartlesville, Okla. They and their families expected that they would get married when she finished college. But on her first visit home, she told him she had dated a classmate. "Bud wasn't much for demonstrating," she says. "I was trying to be coy and find out how he felt about me. Bud got up, said, 'That's it,' and walked out the front door...
...often looked back and wished I had talked it out with her," Bud says. Over the years he has learned to be more communicative. Both declare their reunion a godsend. "It seemed so natural," says Jody, 83, "as if you'd been away from your home, unlocked the door and walked...
Like Jody and Bud Shipley, many people have moments they wish they could go back to and do over, knowing what they know now. It's a powerful fantasy and the premise of the 1993 film Groundhog Day, in which Bill Murray has to relive the same day until he finally gets it right--and wins Andie MacDowell. Even if the fateful moments aren't so much mistakes as simply choices, the "what if" can remain tantalizing across the years. It impels a lot of folks to try to look up an old flame...
Franklin and his roommates hosted a four-TV, two-keg party filled with New England supporters. Students crowded onto five couches, stood in corners and curled up on the floor while drinking Bud Light out of personalized mugs and jumbo-sized soup containers...