Dear long-distance best friend,
A lot of people part ways with their best friend as they go off to separate colleges, but we're a pretty unique exception. Ever since you moved away when we were 5 years old, we have been (as we like to call it) in a long distance relationship. Since we were so young and didn't count as real people yet, you'd imagine we would naturally lose touch, right? Not us. Distance never stopped us from making it to every princess-themed birthday party (you know the one where I took your blue balloon and we didn't talk for a whole day? Yeah, that one.) As we got older, and started to create our own lives in different states, at different schools and with separate friends, we were still a big part of each other's.
I'm going to be honest, there was a brief time when we started to stray from each other because of how caught up we were in our own, crazy, dramatic, teenage lives, but you proved to me that you were still there when I needed you, and I hope I was able to do the same for you. Ironically, the memories I remember most are not playing dress up when we were practically neighbors, but face timing for five hours while binge-watching "Gossip Girl" so it felt like we were together. Talking on the phone until 2 A.M. on a school night while you planned my entire wedding to the tee, making up funny nicknames for each other and sticking to them for 10 plus years. Those are the memories I value and cherish the most. Throughout high school, we got by with visits to your suburban hometown, and city shopping trips to where else but Dylan's Candy Bar and BBM, both of our favorite places. This past year you came to spend my 19th birthday with me in the city and it felt like we were 5 years old again. Know why? Not because nothing has changed, I mean everything has changed, except our friendship which has never and will never change.
Now, we are sophomores in college 683.3 miles away (but who's counting?) and are closer than ever. We text and FaceTime whenever possible, call for a quick chat while walking to class, and send each other motivational quotes as we try to get by during finals week. You even sent me Insomnia cookies when you knew I was feeling down. I don't know how I would've gotten by without calling you before and after every round of sorority rush to either vent or have you go over the five B's and all the other the tips you gave me, because we both know you've had them down since before you learned to read. What I'm trying to express, but probably failing to because words can't begin to describe how grateful I am for your friendship, and continued loyalty, which we both know, is hard to find.
There is no doubt in my mind that we will always keep our inseparable bond, and that you will be my maid of honor at my wedding which you planned ever so meticulously. Because no matter how far away we end up living from each other, or where life takes us, you are my forever friend. And I love you.
Sincerely, your long-distance bff <3
