To you,

Thank you. Thank you for not leaving on my roughest and darkest days. You have seen me at my worst and there is nothing I could thank you more for than that itself.

Thank you for growing up with me. We grew up doing everything together, whether it be going to each other’s houses after church or cheering for our brothers during their games, we were inseparable.

Thank you for helping grow in my faith. You always reminded me to keep God first. You helped me to want to be a better Christian. That’s one of the greatest things anyone could help me to be.

Thank you for becoming one of my favorite people and closest friends, despite our young ages. We grew up together from such young children, and we have still held our same friendship, adding so many memories.

Thank you for being there for me always. You were (and still are) the person I would go to when something was going wrong in my life. I know that I can text you anytime I am in the dumps and you will know just what to say or do to me to cheer me up.

Thank you for letting me show up at your house with no notice. I know that I have stayed over there about as much as I have lived with my own family and yet, you still let me come over all the time.

Thank you for keeping our friendship no matter the distance. I know that we have gone our separate ways and to our different schools, but I am so thankful that we are still as close as we were growing up. Despite the distance and our different sororities and everything, we have still kept our friendship strong and that is such a relieving thing to have.

Thank you for the memories. Our memories are a part of my life that I will constantly keep strong and hold onto. No one else would understand them, but we have some of the greatest memories. From weddings to road trips, there are no ways that anyone else could look at us and not think we were idiots for laughing at virtually nothing.

Lastly, thank you for being my lifelong best friend. I know that you and I will be bff's. I am confident in that. I am confident in the fact that you will be in my wedding and I know that I will be in yours. I am confident that we have many memories and events to encounter together in the future and I am confident that we are stuck with each other. You are the Cristina to my Meredith.

Thank you for it all,

Your best friend