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An Open Letter To My Best Friend With A Disability

Everyone learns something from their best friend.

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An Open Letter To My Best Friend With A Disability
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Dear (Insert Name Here),

We have known each other ever since Pre-K. We started talking in 4th grade, and ever since then we have been inseparable! I have had your back for as long as I can remember, and I know you always have had mine. You always talk so nicely about me, and it makes me feel amazing to know I have an amazing best friend like you! Remember we would meet weekly with a teacher in elementary school? We would have group meetings and we would play these fun games and always talk.

I have learned so much from you! Everything about your disability makes me more curious every day. It has opened my mind about kids/ adults with disabilities. Everyone is not the same, and no one will be the same! We are all different, and you my wonderful best friend are not different, or "normal"; no you are none of those! In my book you are unique! You have opened my eyes, and I can't thank you enough!

Your disability never stopped you. You are a positive, and wonderful young lady! I have seen you grown from a little girl with a walker to a wonderful young lady who can walk faster than me! You smile all the time, with that smile you light up the whole room, with that smile you will never be put down! No one will shove you around and no one will make you fall with that smile. Your laugh is very contagious, when you laugh I will always laugh! You laugh at the smallest things! if I say the word "booty" you would laugh. Your jokes are very hilarious, sometimes they don't make sense, but I laugh anyway because you are my best friend and I love you.

Now I am in college, and its the first time we have been a far distance away from each other. You call me every day, and whenever I can't pick up you will leave me the most amazing voicemail's that make me cry sometimes.

Being with you ever since Pre-K has been life changing! You have taught me everything that I never knew before I had met you!

XOXO

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