This Girl

"True friends are always together in spirit. (Anne Shirley)"

-L.M. Montgomery

Two (ish) years ago I decided to embark on a crazy, incredible adventure. In the process I met this girl.

I guess it would be fair to mention here that I believe in kindred spirits. How could I not?

I love a lot of thing about our friendship, but here are some of the memories that stick out:

-Toughing it out in the woods of Oregon, and by "toughing it out," we went through an entire bottle of lighter fluid

-Ice Skating in a blizzard on Kreshatyk

-Our little hole-in-the-wall chinese runs

-Our late night talks. (sometimes she was just hit on the head with a ton of energy at 2 AM, rare, but hilarious).

-That one time we came within inches of hitting a deer, and laughed for a good solid 10 minutes afterward.

-The day we just layed out on the porch in the rain and stared up at the sky.

-Doner Kabob's in Ukraine. We were bottomless.

-Getting the worst seats on the plane to Stockholm, and laughing about it the entire way.

-Her face when she accidentally ordered "Chai" (tea) instead of what she really wanted in Kyiv

-When we decided we really needed to strip ourselves from pride and watch the last "Twilight" movie, simply because we were camping in the woods where it was filmed

-When she made me sing Taylor Swift's "22" on my 22nd birthday

-When we tried to make Gourmet french toast, and instead we ended up with soggy bread

-Her love for peanut butter (she bought me a brand new jar when she had only eaten a few spoonfuls of it)

-The way we both tried so hard to be healthy and then would just forget it and go to Cold Stone

-Singing as loud as we could to the radio in the car

-The fact that we never fight (except for a tiny bout of craziness that happened just before her wedding, but we both realized we were stressed out of our minds, and came back to ourselves, and all was good.)

-And lastly, how happy she was on her wedding day, and how irrevocably happy I was in turn to see her marry someone who loves her like she deserves.

Ukraine was difficult, but I'd do it all again in a heartbeat if it meant keeping her in my life!
She claims that I was the one who saved her, but I am convinced it's the other way around.
She's my person, and as much as I miss her, I keep reminding myself how lucky I was to get to spend the past 7 months just a bunk-bed-away from her.

Ya Lublu, Britiskaya. Can't wait to fly out to GA and visit you this weekend. <3<3