i love my friends

and i mean love in the deepest and most meaningful sense. without them i would be nothing. somewhere between the presents, the cake, the horribly off-key singing, and the wellwishes i wanted to start crying because i realized that no matter how bad things may seem or how down i feel i will always have these people. i will always have these memories.

and if i don't have those then i can steal the video tarik took at the party.

yes, everything was a success and i saw people i hadn't seen in ages. and yosh came (aka the lovely josh). all he, lauren, and i did was talk about italy and how we miss everyone. i was so happy to see him that my brain shut down for a good twenty minutes. i'm pretty sure a marriage proposal was in there somewhere too.

stayed with my parents the rest of the weekend in atlanta. lovely dinner, movie (ice age 2: the meltdown-- a must see), and the aquarium. all very very nice. i love my parents and everything they've put up with. i can't imagine putting twenty-one years of your life into molding and shaping and caring for someone else's. is that what love is? offering yourself so another's life will be better? my parents have done so much for me that i constantly feel like an ungrateful child. but i know i'm not and they know this too. i couldn't have asked for better parents.

which leads me to this:
to whom it may concern,
thankyou. thank you so much for making the right choice when it mattered the most. thank you for giving me a chance at a better life. i hope that wherever you are happiness is with you. i hope you (both) have a family and that you have no regrets. never ever regret what you've done.
your daughter,
karen