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An Open Letter To The Friends I Outgrew

We may no longer be friends, but you deserve the best in life.

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An Open Letter To The Friends I Outgrew
Kinsey Roberts

Hey,

You may be surprised to be hearing from me after all this time. I would like to say that I miss you more than anything but I know that we aren’t friends anymore.

Our friendship started when we were just young kids in high school and it started to fizzle out as we started college. We needed different things that our friendship just couldn’t provide for each other any longer. College changed our friendship and that’s okay even though I do miss being your friend.

The friendship we once had was great and we knew we could depend on each other for anything. Once college started, our friendship started to be toxic for both of us, even though we didn’t see it at the time. We tried so hard to maintain our friendship when we went off to college. from the FaceTime calls that would last for hours to me calling you at 1 a.m. with news that I aced that exam that I studied for a week for. I always knew that you would answer until you started to not even respond to a "Hi" when I would text you.

After this started to happen you would sometimes call me and we would argue over the silliest things.I'm not sure what happened or why this started to happen, but I realized this wasn't healthy. After talking to you, I would cry because we would argue about the littlest things but then there were times that I just wanted to talk to you because we were so close.

I would try so hard to be the friend that you needed but I just couldn’t do it anymore. We outgrew being the I’m not sure who stopped talking to who but I know that college gave us the opportunity to realize that being friends with each other caused us more harm than good. We simply outgrew each other for reasons that I can’t really pinpoint.

We outgrew each other but that doesn’t mean I don’t miss being your friend. I miss hearing from you and you telling me about all the cool things you were up to. I believe that the new stress of college is what impacted our friendship so much and I know no one is to blame for our friendship fizzling out.

You were once one of my closest friends and you deserve to accomplish everything you ever dream of. I still care about you sometimes I wish I could go back in time and figure out what changed out friendship. I miss being your friend and I wonder if you miss being friends with me.

I know I will probably never know the answer to this and I know the possibility of being friends again isn't real. know I probably won’t ever hear from you or see you until our five-year high school reunion, so this is me wishing you the best in life. I have no idea when I will see you again because I don't go home much but I honestly wish you the best in life. I hope you succeed in whatever you want to accomplish in life.

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