Pictured: Adamson High School, 1980. Front: Jennifer Barclay, Lupe Brown, Nancy Hobson, Dennis Banners and Alex Garcia. Rear: Sammy Piccola, Sheri Adams, Bruce Brown, Mike Giles and Danny Salazar.

Remaining friends over decades with one person is a feat, but imagine eight best friends.

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These women all grew up in Oak Cliff, and some of their friendships formed in elementary school, when they were in Girl Scouts. They all went to Greiner Middle School, and all but one to Adamson High School. Several were on the Adamson drill team, and over the years, their former instructor, 1972 Adamson alumna Linda Pauze, joined the group.

Three of them played French horn in the band.

“I was so excited to tell my mom I was third chair,” says Alex Garcia. “She said, ‘Well, how many chairs are there?’ ”

There were three.

Now 59 and 60 years old, every one of them lives in Oak Cliff. Most of them never really left.

Nancy Hobson lived away, in North Carolina and New York City, for 30 years but remained close with the group. When her husband died in 2012, she returned.

“I just wanted to come back here and be with my people,” she says.

They take vacations together almost every year. Once, they took a road trip from New York City to Spring Island, South Carolina, where Hobson’s in-laws had a vacation home.

They also take international trips together and had to cancel a planned vacation to Spain last year.

In high school, they hung out at the rambling early 1900s home of sisters Karla Rojas and Sheri Adams on Lake Cliff Park.

“We had a lot of parties,” Rojas says.

They used to go to Oak Cliff Donuts at 2 a.m. and just cruise around. Once, the drill team marched in a Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans. When the parade ended, they were “totally unsupervised,” Garcia says. Just teenage girls wandering around Mardi Gras in their dance uni- forms. Hey, it was the ’70s.

But they were good girls. They didn’t really drink or do drugs. And all of them have strong religious ties, even Meeka Bain, who says, “normally on Sundays I go to our lady of Norma’s.”

Otherwise, there are two Catholics and five Protestants.

“We extend a lot of grace to each other,” says Adams.

In normal times, they have dinner every Thursday, and they love to play card games and dominoes. Through the decades, parents have died, several in the group battled cancer, and three of them were widowed.

After 45 and 50 years of friendship, there have been no big fights, and they always keep each other laughing. They’re closer than family in many ways, they say.

“You can just be,” Adams says. “It’s so comforting to have this supportive group of friends.”