As we all grow older, friendships come and go. People move away, grow up, start careers, or simply fade away. Through my 21 years of existance, I have seen this happen. Graduation from high school, changes of classes at colleges, new people moving into the dorms...even people I meet off the street or have a conversation with at a park, but never see again. Either way, whether the friendship was casual, or will last a lifetime, the people within our lives makes us who we are. We cry together when we find out that the cute boy in our class likes someone else, we cheer each other up when we are sick of crying about him, and we help each other find a new boy to chase after. And no matter if we may fight, we will always forgive each other and communicate that forgiveness when we feel that we miss them.
I created this page not to lecture how to be a friend, but merely to acknowledge and publicly thank Mary MacDonald, my best friend for 4 (or is 5? sorry Mare, I lost count!) years now. She was there when I had my first boyfriend, when I had my first beer (that we had to pour into a Sprite can so we could get away with it!), helped me build my confidence back up after that first boyfriend, and after the ones following him broke up with me as well. She shone as a true friend my first year of college when no one else was there for me, and never told me to shut up through my endless jibbering and bitching about Tim Somers. She made me laugh when we both confessed to each other that we were so envious the other...I always thought that she could get any guy she wanted, and she always thought I could get any guy I wanted! She helped me have a vengeful side, so that I could escape bitterness and feel somewhat better. Such as when I talked to her about the Victor incident and how he's thrown our friendship out. Through my anger, I felt compelled to break something. Her suggestion was to throw the shot glass he gave me break and mail the broken glass to him. Well Mary I finally threw it, but it bounced off the wall, leaving a nice mark and fell unbroken to the floor! I finally smashed the damn thing on the floor!
To sum up, Mary has demonstrated a great friendship to me. Even when we live an hour away from one another, and she doesn't know anyone I talk of down here, she still always had an ear and listened. She helped me become a stronger person and not take a lot of people's crap. She taught me how to make a joke really happen (such as when we wrote a note to Marc Plotkin from Kristen Nagy confessing Kristen's feelings for him) and how to avoid the concequences (when Kristen found out about the note and Mary and I had to pretend we were in a fight to get us out of trouble!). When I wrote you that note asking for you "forgiveness" and I mentioned the part about being jealous of you and Mike Plotkin's relationship, that was a smidge true. Still, we had a beautiful make up in the band room of NFHS!
All I can say to you Mary is that I'm glad to be friends with you and that I hope that we can stay best friends for a lot longer! You truely are a beautiful person!

Your Best Friend, Jenney
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