*sees super tall kindergarten girl across classroom; walks up and says...*

Me: "WOAH, how old are you?"

Future best friend: "Um, five.

Me: "WHAT! YOU LOOK LIKE YOU SHOULD BE SIXTEEN!"

This peculiar conversation introduced me to the best friend I've ever know.

To My Forever Best Friend,

Thank you for being my shoulder to cry on, my person to rant to, my second family, my number one supporter and my "sista from anotha mista".

Thank you for watching countless soccer games and even playing a few seasons, even though soccer was definitely not your thing. (LOL)

Thank you for opening up your home and family to me for the past fourteen years. Celebrating the holidays, birthdays and summer breaks with your family felt just like being with my own.

Thank you for listening to my countless rants about work, school, my family, boys and pretty much anything else that irritated me. You've literally listened to anything that bothered me for the last decade and a half (almost) and for that you deserve a trophy.

Thank you for never letting distance interfere with our friendship. Maintaining a friendship with someone that lives 300+ miles away BEFORE you had a cell phone was nearly impossible. But we managed to do it and we're still going strong at 1,817 miles. I guess it's true when they say that "distance means so little when someone means so much".

Thank you for accepting me for who I am. True friendship is not making fun of my picky eating, my lack of rhythm or my love for Rascal Flatts. True friendship is falling asleep on the couch watching throwback Disney movies, staying up till 3 in the morning making videos while talking in British accents, addressing each other with the "gangster" names from the online generator and going to the mall just to get Starbucks and have a photo shoot.

But most importantly, thank you for being you. Thank you for being my support system, personal therapist, motivator, best friend, sister and "Fly-Ass Crab Wacka" all wrapped up in one person. Friends like you are one in a million, but sisters like you are once in a lifetime.

Love always,

Your Best Childhood Friend

(Butt-Jugglin' Stank Hoe)