Let's take a step back and think back to when we were only eight years old.

Sleepovers were everything to us, staying up until midnight doing those little bead activities that you iron and then get shapes out of and then once midnight hit, we'd sneak downstairs and get Oreos as our midnight snack because, "Everything tastes better at midnight" or when we'd sit in the hammock for hours with our American Girl dolls talking about our future about what we want to be when we grow up… Those were the good old days…

Now fast forward to now... We're both 21, in college, and on completely different paths in our lives. We both have completely different goals and visions for our future. You're going on to be a doctor or a lawyer, I'm on my way to being a business owner. We're both at two completely different schools and I'm not sure how our paths are going to cross again or if they are ever going to.

The biggest question I have for us is how did this happen?

How did we become such distant strangers? How have we lost contact for so long? We used to be inseparable! I remember our parents at one point literally having to pry us apart to get us to go home, when in all actuality, we ended up leaving together and there was another sleepover again.

Or when soccer practice was what we looked forward to everyday and then complaining about how much homework we had to do because, you know, fourth grade is hard stuff. With all of these amazing memories comes the heartbreak we have shared, breaking bones, being there for each other with deaths in the family... We've gone through it together.

We weren't just best friends, we were practically sisters. We just didn't have the papers to prove it. We were and we always will be family because ohana, and ohana means family, family means nobody is left behind or forgotten and yes I just quoted "Lilo and Stitch," but ohana means family and you will always be family.

I hope you are doing well and I hope you are happy. I hope you succeed in all you do, I wish you nothing but the best.