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An Open Letter To My Best Friend

This is for all the "thank you"s and "I love you"s that have been left unsaid.

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An Open Letter To My Best Friend
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You have been one of most influential people I have ever met. You have stood by me for more than nine years, and within that time you have taught me so many valuable lessons. You have taught me how to be kind and patient; wait for the things that I deserve, and ignore all the things that don't deserve my love and attention. You have taught me wrong from right, and that it is okay for friends to fight; in fact, that is completely normal. You have taught me how to value and how to love someone unconditionally in ways I did not know was possible.

You have taught me that while neither of us may not want to always say sorry first, sometimes it makes a big difference in the outcome of things. You have taught me that people drift from each other sometimes; sometimes it is only for a short while, and other times it is forever (we are lucky enough to only know the short time). You have taught me that I do not need to talk to you every day to feel close and connected with you; in fact, I learned that we were closer when we did not talk every day. You have taught me that family does not always mean blood; sometimes it is just were you feel at home and at peace with each other.

You have taught me what it means to be a best friend, and that people don't need to be in a relationship with each other to be soulmates, because you are my soulmate. We were meant to find each other; we were meant to be best friends. I cannot thank you enough for all the laughs, the love, the support, advice, all the tears, and everything else that you have given me over the last nine years. It has been so amazing having you right by my side all these years. I have been blessed to see out friendship grow to what it is now, and I am so excited to see what it can grow into in the coming years.

Thank you for being the sister I never had, a mentor to look up to, the person that always celebrates the successes of others, a shoulder that I can always cry on, and above all, the person who I will always want to be beside me through every stage of this ridiculously crazy life of ours.

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