First things first, thank you.

Thank you for showing me what real friendship is all about.

Thank you for allowing me to present a part of myself that no one else has ever seen.

And thank you for accepting me when other people haven't.

From telling me which dress I should wear or which route I should take in a certain situation, I couldn't have gotten as far as I have in life without y'all.

You have been there for me through my ugly stage in middle school, my bratty stage in high school and now my attempt at adulthood in college.

It is truly crazy to think that we have even made it this far.

There are very few people in this world that can say they have had the same friendship for as long as we have—and to me, that is a blessing in itself.

The type of friendship that we have is a true rarity.

It is one that is brutally honest, one that is safe, and one that many people wish they could say they had.

From the days we used to spend every waking minute with one another, and now to the ones where we are all hundreds of miles apart—I can't say that much has changed.

We still laugh together, we still tell each other everything, and we still don't judge one another for what happened the night before (lol).

But when we do have that rare chance of seeing each other after several months of being apart, it is as if everything is still the same that it was back in high school.

Even our group chat is still going strong—five years later.

I took my first drink with you, I experienced my first date with you, (you weren't there but I was texting you the whole time so it's almost as if you were) and I have simply experienced life with you—regardless of whether you have been physically present or not.

You are the ones that will be my bridesmaids.

You will be the future aunts to my children.

And you will be the ones that I will call when I feel like getting away for the weekend.

I treasure our friendship and I treasure the beauty within it.

You tell me when I should or should not do something. You tell me when I should or should not text that boy back. And lastly, you let me know when everything is going to be okay—even when I think it won't.

Thank you for welcoming me into this circle of friendship that God has graced me with.

Thank you for sticking by my side no matter what.

And thank you for being there when no one else was.

You are my family, and family sticks together.

I will love y'all till the end, and I cannot wait to see what else life has in store for each and every one of us.