Melissa - My oldest friend. When I look back at my high school year's, there she is. We met during our 10th grade German class. We used to sit close together and by the time we knew it we had become good friends. We have so many good memories and we continue to make them even though she lives 500 miles away. Drunken nights at the golf course, boys, kareoke, parties, Steve's house, tears, laughter, weddings, children. I don't know what I would have ever done without her. She's one of the few people that truly know me. I can turn to her for the simplest thing or for a life changing decision, I know she'll be there and give me her most honest opinion. She has my back as I do hers and we know that. Regardless of the circumstances, we know we can count on each other, to pick each other up. She knows my flaws but yet she accepts them and still manages to stand by me.
Mel, just know that I love you. Can't wait to be 70 and sit next to each other and reflect on our lives.
Jossie - While we met during work...our friendship extends beyond. There are times, where she's the first person I talk to about my problems....she listens and gives me the advice only a true friend would. I admire her for her strength...tough things can come her way but she will come out of it a winner.
My dad would always tell me "there's no such thing as friends." Dad, I have to tell you something, "you are wrong!" Your friends are those who stand by you through the good and bad, they cry with you, they drop anything in your times of trouble, who stick by us, those who embrace our flaws and acknowledge they are just a part of who we are, they hold your hair back when you're puking (or maybe i've gone too far), those who make us smile...
Thank you guys for being my friends...I'm grateful and blessed.
