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Nobody, except for my brothers call me Ponyboy anymore. I was now known as Curtis, I didn't argue with the name switch, I personally enjoyed a more intimidating name. Sodapop got drafted to the war in Vietnam, but I don't talk about it much, he writes to us whenever he can. My nightmares had been bad the first month but now, they're non-existent, just like Darry and me's relationship. Darry found a chick. I don't dig her too good and she don't dig me. But I could never tell Darry that, because he seems happier. Every chance she gets, she turns Darry on me. Darry don't like my friends either, so I guess we call it truce. I feel alone, but I have a major crush on a girl, Kathy. She's dating a boy named Bryon though and he already doesn't dig me, so I hide my feelings toward her. I have a nice built to me, but I'm pretty small. I have the rep as a good fighter, even though I'm not a tough guy. I try and think back three years ago, when I was only 14. It seems so long ago, but it's probably because growing up. We split apart. After Johnny and Dallas died, we remained together, maybe closer than ever. But then, Steve started to get more and more serious with Evie. We gradually started to see less and less of him and before we knew it, he was gone. Same thing goes for the oldest member of what had been our gang, Two-bit, except instead, he started to fix up his life. He stopped stealing, finally graduated school, and ultimately stopped drinking too. All because it dawned on him, that he wasn't getting any younger. I remember our gang vaguely. We would die for eachother, we grew up together, we had a relationship like brothers. It's funny how it all changes, just like that. You don't realize it at first, but it slowly dawns on you. We didn't grow apart. In the end, we just grew up.