If there was a teacher you had in high school or maybe even a teacher from your younger years that you always visited, who knew just about everything going on in your life, then you're a lucky one.

To the teacher who became my at-school mom.

Thank you. Thank you for always listening to my probably really annoying problems, and giving me the same advice over and over. Thank you for being someone who really cares about me and wants me to realize my full potential.

Through all the problems I had in high school from stress to boys, to any other type of stupid problem I ran across, your classroom was the place I knew I could go to cry, talk, or forget about it for a little bit.

You created a safe place for my friends and me, and whatever we talked about stayed there. At one point we all had the most intense conversations or shared the most personal stuff and no one ever found out beyond the 4 walls of your classroom.

Thank you for not only seeing me as a student but a friend. Someone who you talk to about the world, life and who knows what else. But also making sure I know, that no matter where I am in life, I’ll have your guidance through it all.

Thank you for all of the life advice you’ve given about anything and will continue to give me when I’m at college and living my life after high school.

I feel like I never really can explain the way our relationship has helped me and taught me through the last four years, but now that I’ll be on my way to college, I’ll be able to use so many different lessons I learned from you while I’m there. I’ll forever be grateful for you and like you said, “both of our lives are changed forever…”