Dear Best Friends:

This week I watched my grandfather die. It was a slow death filled with family and friends, Bible passages and hymns. In the end, death was welcomed, a release from a life lived, with hardship and joy. By his side throughout was his best friend of over forty years. Watching her lose her soulmate was heart breaking.

Dear best friends, you are my soulmates and I want you to know how much I value you, because one day this will be us, one leaving and one staying. I love you with all my heart; you are my sanity, my entertainment and my heart. You make me whole and fill my life with joy. We will be each other's happy memories the ones we recount for years to come.

Thank you for being my rocks, the ones I cling to in a storm. Thank you for kicking me in the ass when I need it and letting me cry on your shoulders. I love you. I love you. I love you. Forgive me for not telling you more often or enough, because it is true. I am grateful that you are so constant that I can take you for granted, but so precious that I have to remind myself that we could lose one another at any moment. Dear Best Friends, I love you with all my heart.

~E