To My Sister Who Isn't Actually My Sister,
My love for you is unconditional. I can’t even put it into words how much I love and appreciate you. But you already know this. It’s like preaching to the choir. You know I love you, and everyone around us knows I love you. Because when I’m at school I never really know what to call you, because it confuses people to call you my sister, because, I mean look at us. But you’re more than a friend, you have a bigger spot in my heart than that. You’re my friend, my little, and my sister all wrapped into one amazing human being.
We've always been a package deal. We joked that we were the same person and it slowly became the truth. And looking back I realize just how similar we really had become, we talk the same, we use the same hand gestures, listen to all the same music, like all the same foods. You literally were my mini me. My little clone that I loved. Taking you “under my wing”, I guess you could say, my senior year was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. Every day I am thankful for you and our friendship and to basically call you the little sister that I never had.
Sure, I taught you your fair share of things in life. But you taught me more than you know. You taught me how to just be me. You’ve always been 100% your goofy self, even when people were watching and you were a little self-conscious you couldn’t help but laugh the way that you do and you never stopped dancing or singing or shouting. It always astounded me that you could do that. Just be yourself even when everyone was watching. You were supportive in the way that no other friend of mine had been in a really long time. Not once have you ever said “I told you so” when something in my life crashed and burned, you were always on my side. If a boy broke my heart it was always me over him any day of the week. Maybe you didn’t always know what to say but you were still there for me when I felt like other people had walked away.
For this, I am thankful. For you, I am thankful. Because without you, I can easily say that I wouldn’t be the person that I am today. You let me into your life and you let me see parts of your life no other person has. To do that takes immense bravery and trust. And I can’t thank you enough for letting me be the person that you let in because I think it made both of us better people. It created a bond that I don’t ever see being broken. I may be here, and you’re there, but no matter the distance you’ll always be the sister that I chose and my mini me that can’t be replaced. No matter who or what comes into my life you’re the one that I’ll always pick up the phone for, I’ll never not answer a text, and you know I’d drive across this whole state for you if I really had to. Because that’s what sisters are for.
Love you forever,
Kellie
