Dear best friend,

First off, I wanted to say I'm sorry. I'm sorry that I left you behind to go to college 440 miles away. I'm sorry that we've lost contact over the summer and we don't talk like we used to. I'm sorry we can't talk about boys over coffee anymore or that we can't go on our sushi dates like we used to. You've been there with me through thick and thin over the last two years and I can't express enough how grateful I am to have met you. You became one of my best friends who knows more about me than I know about myself. I miss our coffee and sushi dates more than anything in the world. I miss walking over to your house at ten-o-clock at night to watch "Law and Order: SVU" with you and your mom while eating sunflower seeds and then sitting outside to have tea at the park across from your house. Your family became my family and you became like a sister to me. We did everything together.

I moved away after we graduated and now we don't talk. Sometimes I think it's my fault, that I'm not trying hard enough to keep in contact or maybe we both just got too busy for each other. I still look at every picture we ever took together and wonder how we went from being so close and talking every day, to hardly talking at all. Now it feels like we're strangers and I have no idea how we got to this point.

I talk about you all the time to one of my friends in college and tell her about all our adventures, late night talks, and everything we ever did together. I talk about how much I miss you and how I would trade anything to see you for a day or talk to you. I think about you every day and wonder how you are doing. I want to tell you so much about college and what my college is like. I want to tell you about the guy I have a crush on in one of my classes and I want to tell you about how everyone here are horrible drivers. One thing is for certain though, you will always have a huge place in my heart no matter what, even if we don't talk decades from now. I am so sorry we lost contact but always know that I will forever be here whenever you need me.

Sincerely,

A girl who misses her best friend