Hmph, congrats. You had more friends then than I did for the entirety of ES/MS.
No, seriously.

The only friends I made for years were older than me by several years,sometimes a decade or two. Guess it's because I've usually been more mature, mentally and spiritually speaking.

Of course, all of the above was probably brought on my having my formative years in Saudi Arabia, and then having to deal with the culture here... especially when it comes to kids. Talk about culture shock... >_