To My Best Friend At My Hometown College
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To My Best Friend At My Hometown College

You will always be my home

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To My Best Friend At My Hometown College
Leah Thompson and Rachel Haley

Dear Best Friend,

There are friendships that take root in the very core of our memories. The kind that we feel within us, even when they aren't around. Sometimes the people that are hundreds of miles away can comfort you more than the person with their arm around your shoulder. I look at some of the people around me here at college that call each other best friends just because they're around each other every day and hold each other's hair back while they vomit on Sundays. That is their whole friendship, and while that is a part of ours, we are so much more. It's nice to know that ours is real because its not about being inseparable, but about being able to be separated and still have a strong foundation.

There are just some things that my friends here, as much as I love them, will never truly understand. They don't know my family or the way I was raised and how everyone at home makes fun of the name of my neighborhood or how I have a massive Spongebob mural in my basement. But you know. You know about the things I've been through and the toxic friendships we've both endured, because we were there going through it together. There are these vital memories that replay in my mind like walking out the doors of our high school for the last time on graduation day and packing the car full of tiny plastic shot glasses for senior week, that build the foundation of our friendship even stronger. We've been hurt by the same people, dealt with the same group of boys, been overlooked and under-valued for as long as I can remember. There is no one else that gets it like you do and I couldn't be more appreciative of you if I tried.

I watch our hometown and the people inside of it change through your eyes. You tell me the stories of who broke up with who and which of our favorite restaurants is changing or closing and how Main Street looks when there is a blizzard outside and I'm eight hours away in the sunshine. I see the way my life could be, the way I could've had it. But in all I think that going to different colleges and having these experiences apart has made our friendship grow stronger. We never really knew how much we needed each other until we couldn't drive five minutes to the others house.

There are just so many little things I wouldn't have without you. I wouldn't love Beyonce as much as I do because she makes us feel strong. I wouldn't love crab as much as I do because I know the best crab is from your uncle's restaurant at the beach. I would feel so alone without having you to relate to every single day and although it might be through text due to distance, I don't know what kind of person I would be if it wasn't for our friendship. To be honest the world couldn't handle us being at the same college we're too reckless for our own good. However if there is one thing I know for sure, distance has secured us and I know you will always be my best friend and my home.

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