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To My Best Friend, We Can't Be Separated By Time Or Distance

Thank God I never have to experience that.

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To My Best Friend, We Can't Be Separated By Time Or Distance
Sarah Stofel

To my best friend:

We were seven years old when my family moved into your neighborhood. You and your mom brought over a dessert to welcome us; we were both intrigued by each other, itching to know more. From the first moment I met you I wanted to be your friend, and eleven years later I'm so glad I was.

Summer after sixth grade I mysteriously left. I didn't get to say goodbye, I wasn't expecting it, and I wouldn't be close to you. You were there for all my good, and all my bad, you were without a doubt my best friend.

I'm not going to lie, keeping up a friendship where we only saw each other once every three years was hard. BUT MAN, it's so worth it. Every birthday text, or random I miss you. The random love, or the reminiscing. There's nothing that compares.

Your family is my family, and I'd never trade them for the world. Even when we're all broken and messy, I wouldn't change a thing. Your tears are my tears, your victories are my victories. My failures are yours, and my pain aches through you. You're the best friend who gushes over my love life, and never judges.

Some points in our friendship were definitely easier than others. Holding you as we sobbed into each other's arms uncontrollably was not easy, but if I only knew the time it was going to be until I saw you again. Sometimes I doubted whether I'd hold the same place in your heart. We didn't have much to share except for memories. I wasn't there every day, yet every time I saw you again we picked back up like it was nothing.

As if I never left.

You're my best friend through it all. You're my encouragement, my rock, and the one I will always call on. You will be my maid of honor, and we will become doctors together. Our kids will play together as we reminisce while drinking wine. We will laugh through the good, and cry through the bad.

You're my best friend. No matter what, you will always have me. No matter the distance, no matter the season, you will always have a place in my heart. Life without you sucks, and I thank God I never have to experience that. Thank you for the last eleven years of friendship, here's to at least eighty more.

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