Dear Biggie,
From the moment we had our first moonie date, I knew you were the only Big for me. I connected with you more than any other potential Big I met in those weeks of non-stop sister dates. You made me feel wanted and loved from day one and when we put down our top 10 choices, the hardest part was filling up the remaining nine spots.
All I wanted to do during those weeks when all the new members were going on dates was tell every girl you had a date with to back off because you were going to be my Big. But I knew big claiming was not allowed, and I didn’t want to do anything to risk losing you. The time that passed between you finding out I was your Little and reveal was the most stressful time I’ve experienced since Bid Day.
All I could think about is, “What if she liked a different girl more than me and picked her instead?” Receiving texts from a fake number you set up to trick me was like torture because I wasn’t sure if it was you or if it really was someone else. All I wanted to do was go to your apartment and tell you how worried I was that it wasn’t you, but I knew I couldn’t do that.
Then, reveal came. I was the second to last round of girls to go, and it was beyond torture to watch all the other new members get their reveal hints to tell them which sheet their Big was hiding behind. I sat inside for two and a half hours waiting to be called, scared that if I left to get something to eat from the Commons, I would miss my turn to find my Big behind my curtain.
The groups were called. The new member educator handed me a Winnie the Pooh Tsum Tsum as my hint, and I could barely contain my excitement. You were the only one who knew my love for all things Winnie the Pooh. So I walked out onto the green with the rest of the girls in my reveal group, and I stood in front of our curtain. On it was a picture of Winnie the Pooh and Piglet standing together and it said, "Sometimes the littlest things take up the most room in your heart." I stood in front of that curtain wishing and praying that you were the person behind that curtain. The curtain fell, and my wish came true. I had gotten the perfect Big.
I know Bigs always say they love their Little(s) before they even meet them, but I know that as your Little, I loved you before I met you, too. You have been such an influence on my life since I met you. You’re the first person I want to tell happy news to and the first person I want to go to when things are bad. You have made me a better person and taught me so much. We may not always see eye to eye, but what Big/Little pair does? But we always get through it, and it makes us stronger. I know all you want is to protect me, but you have to remember I need to make my own mistakes so that I can learn and grow, but I need you there with me every step of the way.
Big, I love you more than I can even explain. You pick me up when I’m down, and you celebrate with me when I’m happy. You are one of the most important people in my life, and I don’t know what I would do without you. You are the peanut butter to my jelly, the Mario to my Luigi, the sun to my moon and the Christopher Robin to my Winnie the Pooh.
