Dear close female college friends,

I know that isn’t exactly the best way to start an emotional letter about how much you all mean to me but cut me some slack you all know I’m not the best with emotions. In my defense there really is no better way to describe what you are to me. You are my female college friends. But you’re also so much more than that.

In all honesty, I didn’t really have many close female friends before I started college. It wasn’t that I didn’t want them. I just didn’t have them. But then I meet you. I meet you in the library and in a coffee shop and while living with you. Looking back, I can’t help but laugh that such significant friendships started in such mundane ways. I had no idea back then that you would mean so much to me.

Honestly, I never thought you would. I enjoyed your company but I never thought I could make such a deep connection. I never realized that people could be so supportive and so kind. I never thought that I could open up to people like I have opened up to you.

Because of you, I have knocked down walls within myself I didn’t know I could. I have told you thing I have never told other. All because I know you care. You mean the world. Without you, I would not be the person I am today. Your love and compassion have shocked me to my core. I didn’t know I could ever feel this loved or supported.

So thank you. Thank you for spending hours on the couch watching movies with me. Thank you for always making me laugh. Thank you for spending tortious amounts of hours at the library with me. Thank you for making me smile when I’m sad. Thank you for encouraging me. Thank you for listening. Thank you for holding me while I cried. Thank you all for all that you do. It means the world.

All my love,

Your close college female friend