- x
dear eloise,
i am appreciative of all the ways you have been able to help me this past year. and vice versa. between the long evenings just chit chatting about boys (EW) and going on adventures, there has never been a time when i didn’t feel a peace with you. like i was at home, comfortable.
i think i may have a crush on you…
is that so silly to think about? love? a crush? a wonder?
what is it inside of you that makes me feel that way? i think i’d like to interview your mother ha ~
how’s life been? it’s been a while since i wrote you a letter…i’m sorry.
i know how much you liked receiving them in the mail, as did i. it was amazing to watch our friendship grow on a piece of paper.
i re-read those letters you wrote me everyday.
one that i think of fondly is when you traveled abroad for a year. sending me post cards and various trinkets you found that made you think of me.
i would receive them in the mail, one by one. each of them presenting the same amount of joy, of love.
i love you
i wish that i could speak to you again, you being gone hasn’t been easy. i am often reminded of the way your hair moved when i feel a gust of wind rush by.
or of your smile when i see the moon…so big and boisterous.
i miss you
something crazy happened today tho, which is why i am writing you this letter.
as i was walking around our old neighborhood i visited your childhood home which is now occupied by another family.
they kept the slide in the front yard and all the plants, although they did cut down a couple trees and replaced them with bushes (*eye roll*). i wonder if the backyard is still the same.
if the tree house is still there or if the plum tree has reared its fruit as it did for us. those plums will never be as sweet as they were back then.
i took a couple pictures of it on my camera which i will be developing shortly, thanks for teaching me how to do it by hand.
not a day goes by where i don’t use the tools you’ve given me
i grieve you
i await the day i get to hear you happy again
until then, be well
x.
