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A Friend Long Lost

now playing:  Pandora, by Wisp This essay is entirely fictional. This song reminds me of a good old friend that I used to keep in touch with all the time. Our friendship didn’t start as much in the early months of our new school year, but it was funny how quickly we became friends, like we had both been waiting for each other our entire lives. I remember the dumb yet long chains of text we would send each other for fun, lasting for what seemed like forever as our way of keeping our friendship together. What else were we meant to talk about? As time went on, we eventually graduated from those chains of text to conversations about ourselves and each other. Maybe it was the boredom of the school year that sparked this new initiative, or the feeling of loneliness that came during the late hours; I'm not sure. It didn’t seem like much at the time, but it was new. It’s not like we were separated by distance either. We saw each other almost everyday in the halls of school, in classes, or ...