Dear Old Friend,

It's been a long time coming. Holy potatoes, how the years have passed by in just a blink of an eye.

But with every moment, you were always there. I don't know how I would have gotten through those challenging moments without your compassion ability to calm me down, which has to be a gift.

I want to say thank you. This friendship is indescribable, more so because you have become my family, my sister. To lose you would mean sleepovers, outrageously fun trips to Walmart, and our ridiculously stupid fights would be at a loss.

Thank you for long nights of letting me cry on your shoulder.

Thank you for listening to my obnoxious jokes that don't make sense (most of the time).

Thank you for never giving up on our friendship, and believing in me when no one else would.

I can't imagine a life without you, old friend. Where would I have been the night that I had an extremely dramatic breakdown and left without turning back. I would have no automatic navigation system taking straight to your house. What would have happened when I had way too much wine and no one to share my hangover with in the morning? What would have happened if you weren't there when my parents got divorced? Who would I be now?

But, thankfully, I don't have to ask these questions:

An old friend is always there, right behind the corner, waiting to catch you when you fall.

Old friend, I'm so incredibly thankful for our ability to pick up right where we left off. Who can say that they can go years without seeing their friend, and when they're reunited it's like nothing changed.

I'm more than grateful for our late night talks, especially the one's about God.

I can't express how wonderful it is to have everyone in my family believe you're apart of it.

Old friend, hopefully, as the years follow close behind us, we will still talk and hopefully sit on the porch in our rocking chairs talking about just about anything. I hope life brings you all of the greatest joys in life, and it is filled with love and faith; the same things that you have managed to fill my life with.

To my oldest, dearest friend, no one will understand me like you do, and I thank God for sending me someone who can.