To My Not So Close Best Friend
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To My Not So Close Best Friend

Thank you to the beautiful and special years we spent glued to each others hips, and here's to the ever evolving years to come.

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To My Not So Close Best Friend
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Have you ever had a shirt that you were in love with? You'd wear it once a week and made sure it was clean and ready to go at all times. But somewhere along the way you started to grow more or your parents shrunk it in the wash, and that amazing and safe shirt began to feel awkward and forced when you tried to wear it. That's how our friendship is starting to feel.

Life isn't easy and it takes us on these crazy paths with college and new friends and lost love that shapes us into the person we're meant to be. When we met we weren't that close, and slowly but surely our lives began to mesh together and we became inseparable. Honestly, it felt like I finally found a best friend who was going to stick by my side.

We did everything together. Went to school dances together in the same group, we had movie nights with a long line of traditions that accompanied them, we went to concerts and to movies and to the mall, we laughed with each other at four in the morning, and we cried together when you dog went missing. You were like the sister I never had and it was magical.

I'm not sure when exactly our friendship began to shrink. Maybe it was when you went to college or when I moved away but we both vowed we'd stay best friends, and for awhile we did. It was hard to keep in touch because we couldn't see each other all the time. We each made new friends and for the most part it was fine. You got busy with school so you couldn't visit me and I had to work a lot to stay afloat. Our lives started to take new paths and it appears to not include each other to the level that it used to.

I know there's a part of me that feels replaced but your new friends, but I'm happy you have a support system around you filled with people that love you. Sometimes it feels forced when we talk and I'm not sure if there's one of us to blame for that, but I'm sorry either way. For whatever I may have done to upset you during this path change, I'm sorry.

But please know that to me, you're still my best friend and I'm okay with being among your other new best friends. I live by the philosophy that a person can have more than one best friend, and I know you agree. I know they love you, and in turn love me, and that's all that matters. No matter what may come between us while we're on these different paths, I will always be there for you. I will answer any call or text, no matter the time. I will drive wherever I need to to come pick you up if you need me to. Push or shove I will do whatever I can to help you with whatever you need.

Thank you to the beautiful and special years we spent glued to each others hips, and here's to the ever evolving years to come.

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