An Open Letter To My Childhood Best Friend
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An Open Letter To My Childhood Best Friend

"From backyard adventures, to family vacations, you could always count on your best friend to be there."

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"There's something about childhood friends that you just can't replace." - Lisa Whelchel

That "something" mentioned above is a lot of laughter, memories and stories that will remain between the two of you forever. Childhood is a beautiful time. Children don't see hate, war or race. They don't understand discrimination or evil. The only battles that they see are between cartoon characters. It is so easy to make friends when you're younger, because anyone who is willing to play is automatically a friend. We all have that one friend, though, that meant so much more to us than a game of hide and seek. They weren't just a face in your class photo, or an extra pillow at a slumber party, your childhood best friend was at every slumber party and was the one holding up bunny ears behind your head in every photo. Your moms have stories that make you wonder what was going through the both of your heads. From backyard adventures, to family vacations, you could always count on your best friend to be there.

So childhood best friends, this one is for you.

Long-time no-see, or maybe it hasn't been very long at all, either way, I miss you. I miss the nightly phone calls and the nights where we laughed until we cried. We had some really great times together, and I wouldn't trade those memories for the world. We may be all grown up now and live in different places, but you will always have me. No matter how much life tries to come between us, I will always think of you as the girl who grabbed my hand on that first day and told me we would be friends forever. I don't take things like that lightly, and I hope you meant it way back then. It's hard to think about how much we've changed since we were that little, but those days made us who we are today. We learned how to trust and how to dream. We took chances and learned about loyalty.

See, our friendship was way more than a play date. Once upon a time we counted down the minutes until we were together again. Now it's rare that we do that at all. We have stress and anxiety. We feel lonely and worry about what we should do next. I'm writing this letter to not only remind you, but also myself, that once upon a time we didn't have these problems. We came to each other when we needed a shoulder. I want you to know that that still applies. We may be grown ups, but I won't hesitate to open my door for you. You are still a very important person to me, and I will never ever forget the time we spent together and the memories we made. I hope your life is exactly the way you always dreamed it would be. I hope you never forget who we were back then or all of the adventures we went on together.

I love you more than chocolate ice cream,

Your Childhood BFF

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