The quantity of friends you have doesn’t matter, it’s more important to have real ones. This is the story about finding one best friend, and then a second. What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. – Aristotle I loved that quote because to me it Perfectly encapsulated how I felt about my best friend. She thought it was cheesy as hell.  People say you can’t find yourself in other people, but others can unlock pieces of who you are without even knowing they do it. My best friend Krysten did that for me beginning in the year 2001 when we became friends in Coach Broussard’s geography class. I had an array of friends with varying degrees of trouble making streaks because the pot heads were too high to judge me, and the trouble makers wanted to use the disabled girl as some kind of weird scape goat. Soon, everyone fell to the wayside including my best friend from junior high. I was perfectly fine to be friends with in school but otherwise I was just too much work for sixteen year old kids. And my parents weren’t impressed with them anyway. So, needless to say, I […]

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