I have one friend that I met in kindergarten. I’m now 20, she just turned 21 and we still see each other often (it also helps that both our moms are friends too so we have been able to stay in contact). We are trying harder to initiate conversations between us, despite having very different interests, but honestly she means so much to me cause we grew up together. All through school people assumed we were twins because we looked like carbon copies of each other (that was until I got a pixie cut in grade 11). She’s been there for me through thick and thin, and vice versa. She had this intuition to know whether a friendship or relationship I was entering into would be toxic, and she’d usually be right. I’d protect her because people bullied her because of her disability. We looked out for each other amd still do even as adults. I physically miss her dearly since moving to the city.