Dear Best Friend From Back Home,

It's crazy to think that you have been in my life since we were so young and over the years have grown closer. You have been there through every lecture and grounding that my parents have ever given me. You have been there through every heartbreak when I let some guy make me feel like I was two inches tall. You have been there through every scrape, bruise, and pain that I ever endured. Most of all you have been there through all of my accomplishments and shared the happiness that they brought me as if they were your own. There have been times where we didn't see eye to eye and when we even for a brief moment in time, stopped being friends because, well to put it simply, life happens. But we were able to gracefully come back to each other because we knew that our lives wouldn't be complete without the other in it.

Having you in my life with all of our inside jokes and mental compatibility (so much that we can share a simple look and you will understand what I am thinking) has made my life so bright and full of color. You - for lack of better words - complete me. We are two halves of the same coin and everything that I am not, you are. With strength and compassion at the forefront, there is so much more to you that I see where others cannot and that is what keeps us so close. Whether it be going on trips to Atlantic City for the 4th of July, or you coming with my parents and I to drop off and pick me up from my out-of-state college each year, we have simply always made time to see each other through the craziness that is adulthood - but let's be real, are we truly adults yet?

It's true that we don't talk or especially see each other every day (since we go to school in two different states), but you always still seem to be able to be there to stand by me and give me advice on these crazy college boys and friend drama as well as rejoice in my successes while we both struggle to get through the stressful years of college. Between Snapchat and our random Skype/Facetime sessions (sometimes even at 8:30 a.m. when I skype my family because they are your second family anyway), you are still a driving force in my life and I honestly don't think that I would be who I am or want to become who I wish to be if I didn't have you.

So much time has passed since we met and we have become inseparable and even though we have a long distant relationship, I am so happy that you still deal and want to be around the tornado that is me. And I know that even thirty years down the line you will be sitting by my side in a rocking chair, on a porch somewhere, talking about how much men suck.

Thank you for being such a positive influence on my life, and I hope that I have been in yours.

Love Always,

Your Forever Best Friend