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To My Real Friends

A letter to the friends that were there when I needed them the most. ♥︎

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To My Real Friends
Lori King

To the ones that stayed by my side through it all--

Thank you for the laughs. Being stuck in one room for a month with a giant brace on my leg sure did suck, but you helped me feel better. The countless jokes, in person and by text message, will never be forgotten.

Thank you for giving me the opportunity to do things when I didn't believe that I could. Pushing me to have fun and laugh a lot really did make it easier. Helping me to have fun (basically waiting on me hand and foot) while you could have just as easily left me on my own and had your own fun.

Thank you for making me feel like a person and not just a patient. The nights spent watching The Bachelor and Dancing With the Stars will never be forgotten (and video will never let us forget!). Talking to me as though nothing had changed, as though I had not been hurt at all, was more important to me than you will ever know.

Thank you for just being there. Thank you for helping me when I first got hurt, for sending me encouragement while I waited through my appointments to hear whether or not I would still be able to play the sport that I love, for sending me love on the day of surgery and being there right afterwards, and for being there while I relearned how to stand and how to walk.

Thank you for being the ones that I can share secrets with and grow up with. Thank you for being the ones that I can laugh with, cry with, be angry at the same person with, and most especially, thanks for being the ones that I can count on! Thank you for being real, true friends.

You know who you are... ♥︎

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