Dear Yellow Brick Road,
I don't know how you did it, but you ignited a fire in me that burns bright to this day. I'll never forget the moment we met. I was so nervous to work with a professional singer, and I tentatively admitted that I was not good at high notes. Now you send me flying up to a high c, and we still laugh at your screaming "Pippi long stocking" in the middle of the lesson.
But, more than teaching me to sing, you've helped me grow into the young woman I'm becoming today. You've watched me grow for 8 years, and you've helped me through boy trouble, girl drama, theatre nightmares, and general step, and I don't think I'd have made it without you. You've taught me to use music as a way to express myself and communicate with those around me in a way that has, at times, brought me tears. You've been with me through the shows I wasn't cast in to the hills being alive, and you were always there to cheer me on when I soared and pick me up when I fell. The more I think about it, the more I realize that it was a series of coincidences that brought you into my life, and I couldn't thank God more that it happened.
I could type on and on about how amazing you are and absolutely perfect inside and out, but, the thing is, words will never be able to express exactly how much you mean to me, and how much I love you. You've been another mother to me, and I can't even count the number of times that your hugs kept me going. You gave me the gift of song, and I am so eternally grateful because that is something that will forever keep us together. No matter what happens in my life, you, like music, are there to be a guiding force and to keep me driving forward.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, from the bottom of my heart, thank you. I just can't find the words to truly express how much you mean to me and how much you've changed my life for the better.
I love you forever and always,
Your Susan---->Maria