Tonight I had dinner with the other FET's, probably for the last time. I said my goodbyes, but it hasn't hit me that this is goodbye for real. In the last 11 months, with the absence of our real families, we have had to be family to each other. We hang out a lot, and sometimes we get mad and yell at each other. Sometimes we tease each other relentlessly, but if one of us is in trouble, we all step up and move heaven and earth for that person. I'll probably get confused at some point in the next week and call my mom Peggy, or wonder why Linda isn't at dinner. And I'll need to find someone to insult, without Thomas around. I've already started: the last couple of times I passed through Houlong on the train, I looked for Tara, even though she's been in Canada for at least three days already.
My inner Mary Catherine Gallagher would like to express my feelings in the form of a song:
"I've heard it said, that people come into our lives for a reason...
I don't know if I believe that's true, but I know
I'm who I am today, because I knew you."
And I made a slideshow
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