At 7:00 am every morning, Mrs. Marisa Rogers and Ms. Sharalle Nunes arrive at Cathedral to begin their days in the Attendance Office. This has been their routine for the past seven years. Mrs. Rogers is the Attendance Secretary, and Ms. Nunes is Secretary to the Deans. One would never know by simply looking at them, but these two women have been friends since 1986.

“They are like sisters”, said Ms. LuAnn Howard, who works closely with the friends every single day.

Both Mrs. Rogers and Ms. Nunes grew up in San Diego. Together they attended Saint Charles Catholic Church in Point Loma. They met in the seventh grade in 1986, and they have been best friends ever since. They even remained friends through high school, even though Mrs. Rogers attended Point Loma, and Ms. Nunes attended Uni.

On the weekends, Mrs. Rogers and Ms. Nunes would walk to each other’s houses, walk to swap meets, or go swimming. They still do things together, but now the activities revolve around their kids. “Our families use to go to the desert together when our kids were younger,” said Mrs. Rogers.

After graduating from High School in 1992, both Mrs. Rogers and Ms. Nunes attended the same community college for two years, and then went off to be bank tellers. Then, they both were married within a year of each other. Their husbands were best friends. And, as one might guess, they were each other’s maids of honor.

When Mrs. Rogers and Ms. Nunes were in seventh grade, their dream jobs were much different than what their jobs are now. “I wanted to be an accountant, until I took the class and realized how hard it was,” Mrs. Rogers said with a giggle. She then attempted to remember what her other dream job was, and while trying to recall, Ms. Nunes chimed in answering for her, “She wanted to be a vet because she loved animals.” Ms. Nunes’ dream jobs were a little more far-fetched than Mrs. Rogers. She wanted to be either a race car driver, a horse jockey, or an attorney.

After realizing they didn’t want to be accountants or jockeys, the ladies set their sights on something different – families. Both were married, and Mrs. Rogers had two kids, while Ms. Nunes had three. They both were godparents to each other’s firstborn children.

The relationship that Ms. Nunes, and Mrs. Rogers have is one that is both unique and loving. The two women know each other so well that they were able to answer questions about each other. “Mrs. Rogers loves makeup, handbags, and shoes,” said Ms. Nunes, “and she gets really excited whenever someone gives her one of those things.” Then, without hesitation Mrs. Rogers said, “Ms. Nunes loves to take things apart!” Ms. Nunes nodded her head in agreement.

Friends since ’86, these two have been inseparable in the past, and in the future they plan to stay that way. As Ms. Nunes said, they want to “grow old in a retirement home, and push each other around in wheelchairs.”