To my J.A.M.

{jennica holding baby morgan - november 2008}

{ten reasons why i love this lovely lady}

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1. she was my first best friend - my cousin.

2. she sluffed grade school for days at a time, just to visit me.

3. we used to make awesome forts together, particularly one in the crawl space of our home on Sapphire where we carved our initials and the initials of other 'true loves' on the houseboards.

4. we've only been in one fight and it was over doll clothes when i was nine.

5. she's a female michael jordan. seriously.

6. she gave me her abercrombie jeans when i was in 10th grade. a few months later she decided backsies were in order and that she needed them back (seriously, no hard feelings). oh, those few months!

7. she wore a wedding dress tinted ice blue for prom in 2001 and she looked absolutely royal.

8. we used to write eachother secret letters back and forth from twin falls to meridian. i still have them tucked away in the closet of my room at my home in the country.

9. she's been my shopping companion through thick and thin.

10. she was the best at making believe. roller blades and swimsuits transformed us into figure skaters. then, at night, we used to turn off all the lights, using the piano lamp as a spotlight and we'd watch our shadows on the wall while we danced and sang and pretended we were stars. we played 'house', we played 'store'. we were mothers and wives. we drove pretend cars. we rode pretend horses. it was through magic alone that we became anything we wanted to be.

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here's to simpler times. to perfect memories and many more yet to come. To our own little darlings - may they have as perfect of a childhood as we did.

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i love you with my whole heart, jenn. i hope your birthday is splendid. just like you.