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My True Friend : My Best Friend

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When a friend moves away it's sad, when a good friend moves away it takes some time to heal. But when your best friend who is family to you move halfway across the country, it's a feeling you can’t describe. The hurt and the loneliness that comes with the move is nothing that anyone wants to deal with. My best friend Kaylyn Hooge moved away from Beatrice and away from me June 22nd, 2017. She now lives 17 hours and 24 minutes away from me in the state of Virginia. Me and Kaylyn became good friends at the beginning of 7th grade. We instantly clicked and by the middle of 7th grade we were best friends. I took her to Yellowstone National Park for vacation that summer. As we got older we became closer and closer. She was one of my only true friends at the time. Kaylyn is the best friend that I have ever met. She is there for me in the good times, the bad times, and everything in between. Nothing could separate us come freshman year. I thought that we were gonna be able to graduate together and have the best 4 years of high school together. It was about the middle of the school year, we were on the bus heading to our show choir competition. She was acting a little strange but only I seemed to notice it. I had pulled her to the back of our group as soon as we got off of the bus. I asked “is everything okay?” She responded to me by saying “ My dad might be getting a promotion”. I was happy for her dad and I didn't know why that was making her sad. She then finished what she was saying and it was “but the promotion is back in Virginia”. The smile on my face went away once it sunk in that the promotion would mean that she would be moving. We tried to not think about it anymore that day but never left each others side for a minute. Some time later towards the end of the school year I had forgotten about the promotion. Until she was acting weird in class again. This time she's the one that pulled me aside, she told me that her sisters were telling their best friends so she needed to tell me. I got kinda scared when she said that. The next thing that I heard was “ dad got the promotion, I am moving back to Virginia”. Before I knew what was happening I was crying, everyone in the class was staring at me, but I didn’t

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