We ate amazing yummy food, talked, laughed and cried. These ladies are my family, the family I choose for myself. Each one of them is so different and yet, when we come together, something magical happens. We all just fit and I love it.
The best of the night was when we went down to the beach with the Sky Lanterns. It really was magical watching them fly up into the air with your friends all around you. I know, that whenever I see lanterns floating in the sky, I will think back to that night and the amazing friends that were with me.
Everything started hitting me today. G left after spending the night. I was fine and then, I just started crying. The crying continued off and on all day as I wrote papers for my last class. Thinking about these amazing women who I won't be as physically close to.
I won't be able to drop a text and have my phone come alive with responses. V won't be there to pick me up with her hilarious comebacks and make me die laughing. I won't be able to send A a text when I'm bored and just randomly get together for lunch because we both have nothing to do. A2-I just know she's always there. Towie-going through thick and thin just brings people close together. I'll miss sending notes, comparing kids, and talking shop while hiking and doing fun things outdoors. Al-she can always make me laugh and feel comfortable. We are so different yet, in the important and completely silly things, we are the same. 500- crazy, silly, love her to death. She can make me laugh so hard I cry. I can't text the bejeezus out of G about totes random stuff, sing karaoke til all hours of the night, and hold hands at the beach.
These ladies have been a huge part of my life and they are all going with me to China. Pictures of them will adorn my walls and they will forever be with me, experiencing everything that I do. It'll only a be a year until I come back, but each day apart will bring us closer together.
For one of my Master's classes, I wrote a personal narrative about my getting rejected from a sorority rush my sophomore year at USF. That's what sparked the desire to move to NYC and shake stuff around. I always wanted to be part of an amazing girl group and it took coming back home for that to happen. I have my own sorority here and we will continue to nurture and grow with each other.
Things will change. Babies will be born (!!!V!!!!), weddings may happen, people may move. No one can possibly know what the future holds. I just know that I am so lucky, thankful, grateful, all those wonderful adjectives that all my ladies are in my life. I love you all so very much.
To quote Winnie the Pooh, "How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.". Only ours will not be goodbye, but "See you soon!"
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