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A Farewell Letter To My Ex Best Friend

You'll probably never read it, but I need to say this.

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A Farewell Letter To My Ex Best Friend
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I know you read my article about you.

You liked my post on Facebook an hour ago to let me know that you saw it.

You haven't texted me or anything about it yet.

I know you're pissed, but was unfriending me and unfollowing me really the best response? You never read any of my other articles, but, of course, you read the one about you. You'll probably never see this one, but this is my way of saying goodbye to you. And like I said at the end of that article, I don't think you could have handled it if I said it to your face. No matter what happens, I will always love you.

I will never forget just sitting in my dorm room last year, eating nugs and mashed 'tatoes from The Market and watching Cutthroat Kitchen or Rupaul's Drag Race.

I'll never get to send you pictures of Dutch the dog just to make your day a little better.

I feel like I have to thank you for some of the little things I never really expressed gratitude for:

Thank you for going to the rec with me for an hour some mornings, and then getting Smoothie King with me.

Thank you for going to RaiderChurch with me that one time, and for putting in some effort into something I love so much.

Thank you for sitting in Palm Beach Tan with me even though you said it was always freezing in there.

Thank you for taking me to Galveston with your family; y'all felt like a second family to me, which you know I needed.

Thank you for hating everyone I didn't like.

Thank you for helping me with every guy issue possible.

Thank you for making me laugh every day.

What went wrong? We were supposed to get closer when we moved into an apartment together, but we got driven farther apart.

My intentions with that article were never to hurt you.

Thank you for teaching me what not to have in a friend because you were never that much of a friend to me. That's what everyone tells me, and that's what they've all told me since the very beginning. You were always flaky, you never showed up on time, you could never give an actual answer to things. If you didn't want to talk to me you just wouldn't respond. You wouldn't say, "Hey I'm having a bad day," or, "I just don't want to talk to you," or, "You upset me." You just wouldn't respond. I was so patient with you. I didn't care that you ignored my text messages, even though I could hear you in the other room playing video games. I didn't care because I just wanted to hang out with you. I just wanted to be friends with you.

Who are you going to call or text when you run into him again? When you're just on campus somewhere, and you see him, and then he texts you? Who are you going to ask for advice on what to say? (Even though you won't listen to the advice anyway because you never did, you just wanted to hear that somebody else had another opinion.) I honestly thought we would be over unfriending people to show them that this is the end of the relationship or friendship or whatever, but I guess you're still stuck in high school.

And my final thank you:

Thank you for taking my friends, and doing exactly what you said happened to you in high school. That was the reason you didn't want to introduce me to your friend groups. You did the exact same thing. You took one of my sorority sisters, you took my ex-boyfriend, and you took one of my best friends who lives right down the hall from you. So congrats, you win. Is that what you wanted to hear?

Oooh, you got me. Unfriending me on Facebook, unfriending me on all social media, and deleting all the pictures of us together. You really got me. I don't know what I'm going to do now you just pulled what my other ex-best friend did, which you know exactly what she did. I'm not hurt by it, at first I thought I would be, but I'm not. You can't delete memories.

Of course, I noticed that you saw the article. Yes I see it, and no I'm not going to tweet about you, this is the last you'll be hearing from me. Except if your parents or friends tell you something, but it will never come out of my mouth or through my phone. So here is my farewell note to you. You decided you didn't want to be a part of my life, so here's your wish.

Have you told your parents about what happened? Have you told anyone the reason why? Have even mentioned me to anyone else?

Since you don't care about my life apparently, since you unfollowed me on everything, just in case you want to know any big things that happen in my life, I'll make sure someone tells you when I get engaged, when I get married, and when I have a baby.

Thnks fr th Mmrs

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