Dear Forever Friend,

I love you.

Not in a romantic or sexual kind of way, but the platonic kind of way.

But I do love you. I love you because no matter how long I've known you, you've always been there for me even when I'm at my worst, which I apologize sometimes is an every day occurrence.

I love you because you know me inside and out. If you're a childhood friend, I don't know how you stuck through it all these years, you must be as crazy as I am.

I love you because you always make me watch my favorite brea-up movie, "White Chicks," when the millionth "the one" and I inevitably call it quits.

I love you because you "found" a $20 bill in my stuff when I was in between jobs.

I love you because you actually listen to me when I tell you what's wrong in my life—so, everything—and you care enough to tell me when I'm being stupid or when I'm doing the hardest but right thing.

I love you because I couldn't have survived grade three without you because my dog died and I got glasses and was called Four-Eyes, and almost got held back all in the same year.

I love you because no one else could ever bare to listen to my completely off-tune drunk singing at three in the morning on the porch, but you do and you join in singing even louder.

I love you because no matter how long it's been since we've last talked—a week, a month, sometimes even years—we can pick up right where we left off and just have a huge catch-up session. And for a while, time stands still.

I love you because you're even weirder than me sometimes and it makes me less anxious and shy about who I am.

I love you because you made a guy cry for how he treated me wrong when I should have stood up for myself but couldn't.

I love you because you brought me into your close-knit group of friends without thinking twice and now I have my own little Statesboro family.

I love you because when you're going through hard times and I just have a bad day, you're still there for me. Even though I should have been the one taking care of you.

I love you because you were the first person to tell me I was born to write, and with that I switched my major and never looked back.

I love you because going back to our hometown just feels like any regular old town until I see you.

I love you because when I see old photographs of us when we were younger and we look ridiculous, it reminds me that you always have and always will have a special place in my heart.

I know I can be a puzzle at times, but each one of you are a piece of that puzzle, and I wouldn't be the same without each one of you.

Thank you.

And if I haven't contacted you lately, I hope you know you're always in my thoughts and will always be there for you. No matter what.

Love,

Your Forever Friend