dear cheryl,

i was just thinking about you tonight and thinking how crazy it is to know someone as long as i've known you. i mean since we were in 2nd grade! we did girl scouts together, drooled over boys together (and still need to do that sometime :), traded video games and toys, requested songs on the radio in middle school, diggin the x-files, saw the backstreet boys numerous times, man...i just have all these fun memories of stuff we did. laughs we had. trouble we got into.

and you know i just always thought that you were like the coolest person. you were always somehow meeting famous folks and getting your pics with them :) and beyond that...you were just always so warm and kind and sweet and such a good sense of humor and so confident it always seemed. so adventurous. and you know.. just truly one of a kind. i mean i couldn't have imagined any other possibility then you taking the world by storm. which you are with your world-traveling and experiencing self!

so anyways, i was just thinking of you because i was looking at some of your pics tonight on facebook and it just really flooded me that feeling of just knowing someone so bad-ass, so special, that it just feels like it was meant to be. that i was meant to really just have the amazing luck to know such a person exists. and more then that, is such a good friend!!

so..we totally got to make it happen that we travel together. either a visit to you or a travel together. you KNOW we would have a blast like no other!

i love you. to pieces. thanks for still after all these decades :) being my friend.

lesley