Well, I just got the best surprise a person could get last night - an email. Not just any email, an email from someone I have not spoken to in nearly 13 years. An email from the person who I called my bestest friend in the whole widest world.

What makes this email even more weird is the fact that not 30 minutes before I received it, I had thought about her and her sister. I thought about their birthdays coming up soon and that I didn’t have a way to get in touch with them. Then while checking my email, I did a double take because I wasn’t sure if it was my mind playing tricks on me.

Now, just to say she was my best friend is an understatement. Her family treated me as one of their own (her mom even assigned me chores and introduced me to the awesomeness that is chocolate chip pancakes). She and her family helped take care of me at one of the worst possible times in my life. My father thought of her as his own daughter and it absolutely broke my heart when I had to move away.

I never forgot her. In a world of phony people and fake smiles, she was one of the best people and to say I missed her wouldn’t be enough. Just in case she’s reading my blog - thank you for doing a ‘totally random Google search’ and thank goodness I have a really unique name :).