Dear sister.
When I first met you, Adrianna, I thought you were some weird thing I think. I’m not going to lie to you about it. Goodness sakes, you were a tiny squished up baby, I was a slightly larger squished up baby. (:
You just weren’t like other girls. You were hilarious, stupid, slightly unorganized (slightly ;) yeah right!)
I honestly can’t remember a lot about that first years of knowing you. I know that I liked you fine, but I just didn’t ever give it much thought. I mean here you were, part of my family, someone I saw at parties, and grandma’s. Not some I would call everytime I needed someone, even at age ten? I called people then, right?
We muse about this often, I know, but when exactly did we realize we were perfect for each other? Did we just spend one entire day together, and we realized that it was so much fun that we wanted to do it every day for the rest of our lives?
Or was it our other theory; you threw a flipflop, and we fell in love? Not the tenical love mind you, sisterly love!
To be honest, I think it rubbed some of our other friends the wrong way. Especially those we’d thought to be our best friends before. Looking back on it, they weren’t anything deserving of the title ‘best friend’.
To me, and surely to you, a best friend is a soul mate.
A soul mate simply doesn’t have to mean that man or woman you’re going to spend your life to; the person you’re going to marry. A soul mate just needs to be someone who loves you unconditionally, for all that you are.
Adrianna, that’s you to me. I honestly don’t know the person I would be without you today. I know I wouldn’t have these set in stone morals that I do now. I know I wouldn’t have this relationship with a perverted sister, and I think my relationship with my parents would be different, too.
I know you don’t want to take all the credit, and I know I did some of it on my own and with the help of my parents, but most of that was you. You are the most wonderful girl that God ever created. You are totally and entirely special, and I do plan to speak to you every day for the rest of my life, until I die.
I hope our conversations will continue to be a healthy mix of absolutely hilarious, and soul-healingly serious.
xoxo, Stefanie.
