To my best friend's parents,
I want to say thank you. Thank you for raising the smart, caring, beautiful child you did, because, although you didn’t know it, all those years you were busy parenting, you were also busy shaping the person that was going to become my best friend. Without your child, I don’t know where I would be right now, but it probably wouldn’t be here.
Your child has impacted my life more than you know. Our friendship is something that I can’t begin to put into words, but I hope that you’re proud of how amazing they are -- clearly you did something right. The child you raised knows how to listen when no one else will, how to make me laugh when it feels like the world is crushing me, and is someone who will never leave my side, and I plan on doing the same for them. We laugh together, cry together, have a dictionary's worth of inside jokes, and if anyone ever read our text messages, we would probably get checked into an insane asylum, because to anyone else they wouldn't make sense. Your child is amazing, and I hope that you realize what a wonderful person you’ve contributed to the world.
Beyond raising my best friend, thank you for helping to raise me. Thank you for picking me up from school, for letting me make weird creations in your kitchen, for inviting me to stay for dinner, for coming to my dance recitals, and for always supporting whatever school fundraiser I was doing that year -- because you didn’t have to do any of that. You didn’t have to invite me to spend school vacation with you when I couldn’t afford to fly home, or send me a card on my birthday, but you did, and for all of these things I’m eternally grateful.
The two of you are like my second parents, and I'm sure that by now you've figured that out because countless times we've joked about how I'm your other daughter. Aside from just being my second parents, you're the cool, fun parents because you don’t yell at me when I don’t clean my room, and I don’t have to talk to you about my grades, and how yes, maybe I should have studied a little bit more for that math test (don’t worry, mom and dad, you’ll always be number one, though).
I hope that this letter can give you a glimpse into how grateful I am for the impact that you’ve had on my life.
Thank you for everything,
Your child’s best friend
