My Dear Roommate,

When you told me I could move in with you I really had no idea what it was going to be like, but I knew I was in for quite an experience. I can honestly say that I enjoyed every day and night rooming with you.

I wish I had more time with you and you being my roommate because you truly are the best roommate I could ask for. You have brought so much fun, silliness and joy into my life and really have brought me out of my shell. It just has not been enough time for me. I feel like we finally started to get close and then it was time for you to graduate and leave and I really don’t know how to handle it.

I keep pushing the thought away that next year I will no longer have a messy room to walk into or a bathroom with hairs all over it, or see you sleeping in your clothes rather than pajamas, or be able to say, “Hey Loryn, you need to get up,” when your alarm continues to go off. No more silly videos or pictures with each other, no more watching movies late at night and no more sharing clothes with a roommate the same size as me.

I wish I had came to Montevallo and joined Chi Omega freshman year because I don’t believe I have made enough memories with you as I need. I truly wish I could explain how much of an impact you have had on my life and how blessed I am to have you in it. You will always be my first college roommate and no one is ever going to be able to top the amount of laughs, fun times, advice and memories we have shared as roommates and sisters. You are one of a kind and no one will ever replace you in my heart, on the cheer team or in our chapter.

Thank you for listening to my boy stories and problems and not judging me. I really will need you here to tell me next year that boys suck when they hurt my feelings and give me coffee and Oreo cookies. What other roommmate is going to go to McDonalds with me late at night, not get annoyed with me sending texts and Snapchats across the room to, and send/receive over 100 second Snapchat videos to about our various problems? Who is going to kiss me on the forehead goodnight before they leave to go out when I’m being lame in bed?

I just can’t imagine living with anyone else and I wish more than anything in this world that you could be here, on the hall, as my roommate just one more semester. Thank you for being so encouraging to me this semester and always telling me I can do it. You are such a hard worker and although you are extremely ADD/ADHD, you end up getting everything together on time.

I hope to be half the teacher you are when I get to internship because even though you stay up late working on things you make it look so easy. You are a natural teacher and I am so proud of you and how you have handled everything in the past year I have known you. You are a strong, kind, selfless and independent woman, and you are going to have such a fulfilling future! I love you so much, Loryn!