Jul 09 2008
Say it’s your birthday…..
Today is my best friend’s 32nd birthday. We have been best friends for 27 years.
Yes, I said 27. We met the first day of Kindergarten. She was 5, I was still 4. She always wore very fancy dresses with bells in the skirt.
We are sisters. Not biologically, but in every way that matters. My family thinks of her as family; her family calls me their other daughter. We have always been very alike, but very different. Two halves of the same brain. Except that: she is half Chinese and half Irish. (I thought she was Mexican at 5) I am Irish. She is 5’1, I am 5’10. She is naturally tan and gets darker just from the heat; I am pale and burn looking out the window. She is married, I am single. She has two beautiful little boys, I am not a mother yet.
We lived within blocks of each other and went to the same grade school and high school. She went away to college, I stayed home. She never came home. She lives in Georgia now, I am in Chicago. But it doesn’t matter if she lives in Chicago, Arizona or Georgia, we are as close as ever. We talk on the phone every week, we see each other at least once a year, I was a bridesmaid (we’ve done every fancy dress occasion together) at her wedding and I am godmother to her oldest son.
But, of course, there are times of the year that it is harder for me to be so physically distant from her. The holidays, her sons’ birthdays, my birthday, her birthday. I wish there was a way to just leap across several states and visit with her for a few hours and then leap back. Just enough to give her a birthday hug, eat some cake and have some coffee (and, of course, to kiss her sweet boys’ cheeks).
Happy Birthday, sis!
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