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Open letter to my childhood friend.

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dear  best friend.
I don’t know if I should still call you my best friend, it’s been so long and odds are I wouldn’t recognize you if I saw you today…but I will write this anyway and hope you see it.
I will not put your name here because I don’t know how you’d feel about that, though I get the feeling even if I couldn’t find you on facebook. You might see this, so instead I will share stories and a few things I wish I could tell you, and other things I remember fondly.
I remember how we often remarked even the minor difference between us, that one taste different that while I adored chocolate you couldn’t stand it. It may seem like a trivial difference to discuss but I remember how we used to discuss this at length and remark how we were still best friends despite it as though such a simple thing could make or break a friendship.
I remember how when the first time I met you you were two, and yet I don’t remember our age difference I remember I was older and we still became best friends. And I remember the disappointment you had when you saw the first birthday gift I ever got you was in a pull-up box, only to open the box and find a plush blue, (from blues clues, of course.)
And I also remember how, we would have never have met if it weren’t for our brothers hitting it off as friends.

And I remember with less fondness, how our friendship was torn apart when our brothers parted ways.

I remember the way I saw you were treated, and recent conversations with my Mom brought to light things I didn’t realize were wrong when I was so young, but looking back I remember. And one of the things I wanted to tell you was this, you were loved, even if it didn’t come from your family, you were so loved. And still are, you are often in my thoughts and in my prayers even if you don’t realize this. And in the last conversation about all that happened, I will tell you my mom remarked how she wished when we left California that we could take you with us. Obviously we couldn’t for various legal matters and the fact we hadn’t had contact in a couple years. And another thing I don’t know if you knew this for not having contact, but we moved. Far away, if you went to our old house you wouldn’t find us, and I don’t know who you would find but I wouldn’t be there.
I will not miss that small house.
I will never miss that small house.
But I will always miss the days me and you played in it.
that small two bedroom house, and I will always miss the frequent sleepovers where we would always share the bed in our innocence so neither of us would have to sleep on the floor.
and I will miss the trips to Ikea, and the games we played and pictures we drew in the play area they had.
And the song we would always sing in the car on the way there.
"We’re going to ikea, we’re going to ikea, we’re going to I-K-E-A" and the lunches we had there.

And I remember so vividly the walks we took through your neighborhood, and when you showed me the secret place and when your parents got mad we didn’t answer when the phone didn’t ring.
And I remember going to that one birthday party with you where the dog bit my knee
and afterwords when we laughed at the nick jr shows when they said “That’s right!” after we answered their questions with obviously wrong answers, like “peanut butter” and “Dog bites” and other random things.

I remember all of these things, and so many more, and I hope you remember them too.
I hope you remember how much I loved being your friend, and how much you were loved.
And, I hope you read this, I hope somehow you find this and you read this.
I know it’s kind of impossible but I hope you see this, and I hope you remember, and I hope we get a chance to catch up.

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An open letter to my childhood bestfriend which I'm posting to various places on the internet in hopes she might see it and we can get in contact with eachother.


I know it's a long shot, and painfully unlikely but I'm going to at least try. 
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This was adorable :) good luck to you, man.