my beautiful birthday friend, Written Permission
i give you, my friend, permission to be happy, healthy and wonderful.
i give you permission to have your first meeting with me be when you kindly let me sleep in your loft at our college. i remember your fish named Stipey (right?) and you packing up your laundry and i remember my first impression of your energy and your spirit and how easy it was to be around you.
some things NEVER change.
i give you permission to continue being the witty, intelligent, supportive, loving, generous, hard-working, accomplished, and awesome friend and person that you are. for without you, something would truly be missing in my repertoire of those whom i love most.
thank you for being you, Shan. you are a fantastic person to know and i am so incredibly happy that 1). you were born, 2). you shared your loft with a strange 17 year old, and 3). our paths merged and we became friends. love you!!
2 comments:
aw! Happy birthday to Written Permission FOR SURE!
Aw -- thank you, friend!! :) This was lovely. I am so glad you and I crossed paths during that fateful prospective student trip, and SO thankful that years later we crossed paths again and became fantastic friends. (By the way, that fish was either Jill's or Bethany's -- they were briefly obsessed with Michael Stipe. Ew.)
Can you believe how long ago that was??
I love you, dear friend.
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