Miriam lived 2 hours away in Cinncinati Ohio, and every time we got together it was like no time had passed.
I fell in love with her thick, dark hair
And her golden bangles
And the way she could sing and draw and fight and do everything I wished I could
I thought she was the most beautiful person I'd ever known, but she flew in and out of my life like the birds I tried to name her after
Sam had 2 plastic tigers, basketball shorts, jokes that were different than any I'd ever heard, and dreams that made no sense to me.
I fell in love with the way she was always herself, and never bent to anyone else's "supposed to".
I thought she was an angel, and the bravest person I had ever known.
For me she was constant and unchanging, and consistently out of arms reach.
Amelia is on top of a mountain in North Carolina, and her pedestal is almost as high.
I fell in love with her confidence, her take no shit attitude, and way she thought I was worth opening up to.
I thought she was the strongest person I had ever met.
She is still fearless, with or without me.
Abbey is the protagonist in every movie I've ever watched and every novel I've ever read.
I fell in love with her we-can't-get-caught plans, her incredible taste in music, the way she held me while I cried.
I think she might be the craziest, most undefinable person I will ever know.
She could not care less what boxes I want to put myself in.
Hannah is the poet I never knew I needed until she found me.
I fell in love with the way she makes me topple over laughing, how she is my biggest fan, how she understood me before I asked her to.
She is one of the most beautiful women I will ever know.
I can tell her the things I would never say out loud
Best friends are not forever
But people are
These are not the last women I will fall in love with
But I thank God
That they were some of the first
