For the fourth thing that ruined me for the ordinary we shall chat about some friends of mine. Because I feel like I am so lucky, and I get something in my life that hardly anyone in the world gets to experience. Literal life long friends.
Our dads worked together, played baseball together, and our moms were friends. We were born seven and a half months apart. From the time that I was born (I’m younger) we have been friends. A friendship that spans a lifetime.
Jackie and Amanda are twins. We went to school together and growing up we were basically inseparable. When we were little we played dress up after school. We played t-ball together, soccer, gymnastics (that didn’t last long...) and we would send each other postcards from family vacations. We made obstacle courses in the backyard, that inevitably ended in one of us getting our hair caught in the chain of the swing-set. When Jackie went into labor with her son she told me by leaving a voicemail with a quote from ‘Baby Mama’. And one of my cats... Well. Chloe used to be Jackie’s cat. But I adopted her.
At our dads baseball tournament in Florida when we were five. This is the trip when our parents left us playing on the beach, and we buried all of our sand toys so we could have a treasure hunt. Those sand toys were never found again.
Another baseball tournament, somewhere hot in the summer. Amanda claims that she hates Dr.Pepper, but we will always have this proof.
Basically they were the sisters I never had.
I’m an only child, but growing up I never felt like one. I had two sisters. They just lived at a different house and they were technically part of a different family. But their family will always be like my family, and mine like theirs. They’re some of the only people I know will always be there, can make me laugh, will cry with me, and be real. They’re my pals. And they’ve ruined me for the ordinary in one of the best ways. Because from the beginning, and forever, they will always be my very best friends.
They even came and stood in the freezing cold to cheer me on when I finished my
first marathon. Love them!
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