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To The Friend I Don't Deserve

Thank you for being the friend I need.

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To The Friend I Don't Deserve
Cheyenne Wong

I’m not sure why you befriended me. I’m not sure why you find our friendship as great as it is. I’m not sure why you put up with my ways. I don't know how you have so much patience, and I don't understand how you’re such an angel. However, what I am sure of is how much of an impact you’ve made on my life, and how much of a blessing you are.

When I met you, I wasn’t your biggest fan. Probably because I thought you weren’t the biggest fan of mine. What I didn’t realize was how quiet and shy you were, and how it would take you a long time to open up to 150 girls that you now call your sisters.

Since becoming friends with you, I have become a better person. I’ve had a better understanding of people that are my opposite. I understand that not everyone will feel comfortable around my loud, obnoxious personality. Somehow, you’ve managed to put up with it.

Not everyone will take sarcasm as nicely as you do, and not everyone will keep quiet when I try to shut them up. You’ve made me realize that being nicer and taking the time to care for people’s feelings will get me so much farther than being demanding and getting upset when I don’t get my way.

You’ve also grown as a person, and as such have been able to challenge me. When there’s something I do or say that doesn’t suit you, you tell me and make me fix it. One thing I’ve learned is that you are someone who will be in my life down the road, whether either of us like it or not. Because you’ve been one of the most influential people in my college days, and because you have created so much history and so many memories with me, it’d be weird not to have you at my wedding.

The best part of our friendship is the admiration I have for you. In every situation, you have shown everyone how kind and genuine you are. You never say anything bad about anyone. You are always grateful for the simple things, and you always make people feel important. Not to mention, because of your simplistic appreciation for little things, you have a sense of humor that unexpectedly makes people laugh.

All in all, I don’t understand how you do it. I don’t know how you can put up with my strong personality or how you can still love me when all I want to do is hide from the world. Somehow you manage to treat me better than I deserve, and for that, I thank you. For that, I owe you a lifetime of friendship.

Love you to the moon and back,

Sabrina the Teenage Witch.

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