Dear MSBFFL,

I know that it’s been a while since we’ve spoken, but I want you to know that I think about you every day. I still check up on your twitter/Instagram/Facebook, I still make sure that no boy is breaking your heart, and I still make sure that you’re still happy and making the most out of your life.

We used to have many adventures, and I loved all of them – from riding our bikes down hills, to playing bad mitten in my back yard, to staying up all night and dunking our heads in ice water – you filled my life with the sense of adventure that I had never experienced before. Thank you for that.

We used to have so many big plans, too, like graduating Middle School and finding love and getting asked to high school dances. I don’t seem to remember ever thinking that we’d even graduate high school, and now here we are as real life adults and it’s hard to believe that those little girls with conjoined and matching glitter lockers were once us.

I know that it’s been a while, but I just wanted to let you know that you’ve shaped me into who I am. I wanted to let you know that without your passionate friendship and sense of adventure, I wouldn’t be who I am today. You taught me how to be confident, intelligent, and to demand respect from others. You taught me that my hobbies, favorite TV shows, and the people that I like are all valid. You were the first person I came out to, the first person I shared intimate details of my life with, and the first person to tell me that you couldn’t care less what my back story was as long as we could still have fun together.

There is not a single person that I would have rather attended football games with, shared my lunches with, gone on twenty-mile bike rides with, or grown up with. Your spunky, unceasing optimism is what I still to this day strive to achieve.

You were my first best friend, my first confidant, and my first role model.

I will always admire you, love you, look up to you, and pray for you.

Thank you for changing my life.

I love you,

Your MSBFFL