You have been my very best friend since we were 4 years old. This year we turn 25, bringing us to our 21^st anniversary of friendship. That is longer than most people are even married for! We have navigated life together even in the hardest of times. Through different friend groups in high school, different colleges that were 4 hours apart, different career paths and to here and now where we still live 4 hours apart, have completely different work schedules and still manage to make each other priority in our lives.

I won't lie and say it has been easy for me to be apart from you. Your decision to move four hours away was one that had me pretending that I was happy about it. Of course, I was and still am proud of the bravery and courage you have to be able to move to unfamiliar territory and be forced into a new lifestyle with new people and a new job. In my selfishness, I wanted you to stay so I could have you all to myself.

I will also come clean and say that yes, every time you got a new roommate, I was jealous. Jealous that they got to spend more time with you or even be your go-to person for venting and problems. I was scared that you wouldn't need me anymore and they would be your new weird best friend. Only I can be your weird best friend. However, you always found a way to incorporate me into your new life with your new friends and for that, I am grateful and slightly less jealous.

You are Charlie Puth, "One Call Away", in every sense. Sending flowers, care packages, your schedule, being my maid of honor, texting in between your crazy nursing shifts to ease me back into sanity. Literally being one call away, no matter what. We even still send snail mail…. We definitely know how to keep the romance alive.

Through every life event, my good and bad days, you are still here for all of it. I can't even say that about friends that live five minutes from me. I want you to know that you are appreciated, and no matter how far we are from each other, I'm always still here.