Chi Chi Gatto

My best friend is leaving me.

However, I don’t like to look at the situation that way...So i shall rephrase that sentence.

My best friend got accepted to NYU: Abu Dhabi University and will be living in the United Arab Emirates for 4 years!!!!! She's been waiting for the news all year and i've been waiting just as anxiously for that phone call from her announcing her acceptance. Every time we talked about it, i would refer to it as: "WHEN you get accepted...." because i had a premonition that she would - and my premonitions are ALWAYS right. 


When i answered the phone March 27th about 12:00 AM, my heart literally jumped! quicker

than the white rabbit down his rabbit hole. The water pipes turned on & lake Erie dripped out of my eyes while in a fit of sobs. Both in hysterics, my best friend and i shared possibly the second most intensely happy moment of our friendship (besides of course when we met Aerosmith back stage in New York). I cannot say enough how PROUD i am of her. By the time she’s done, she’s going to be best friends with Steven Spielberg, making a film series better than Star Wars, and covered in tattoos. I just know it.

I’ve known her since Junior Kindergarten but we weren’t exactly the best of friends. She could count by tens, and i couldn’t. She could kick around a soccer ball and befriend the boys, while i was being chased by the school bully having basketballs thrown at me. She was playing sports during recess, while i was under my “Grandpa Tree” playing Barbies. She’s always been a step ahead of me and i love her everyday for it. Every time i’m with her, i learn something new. I’ll be lost without her.

She’s my best friend & will be forever. I am so unbelievably proud to call her mine.

Now the challenge: to share her with the rest of the world.