August 6, 2009

Dear Lilian pt1,

I am so sorry you have to experience a loss like this. Spend the all the time you can with him. I can’t sit here and tell you that you can move past this and get on with your life, because to be honest my grandmother who I was extremely close to has been dead for 10 years and I still cry whenever I think about it. Just think about how lucky you are to have experienced a close bond with someone that some people search for their whole life for, and you are only 15.
Keep all the memories and continue to make more, he is always going to be with you.

Original submission:
“My best friend in the world is dying. He was right outside of the room, with his mother, when my mother was giving birth. He was the first person, other than family, to hold me. And now, he’s become more than family to me. I consider him my soul mate, not in the romantic way, but in the way that him and I are perfect for each other. We just fit and I don’t know what I’m going to do without him.

There’s nothing I do that can get past him and nothing he does will I not know about. I’ve known him for all the fifteen years of my life that I’ve lived and… he’s like the last puzzle piece that you need to find. As long as you have that puzzle, you’ll be complete. And I am complete. But how much longer am I going to be complete?

He’s going to die. What am I supposed to do?”