marlana, revisited

so now that marlana has actually caught up her blog, i suppose i will tell you more than the fact that she needs to blog. :)

marlana and i were great friends in high school. and you know how great it is to have great friends in high school, right? i mean, seriously a great friend. and then we graduated, and without a lot of fanfare, we lost touch. it happens to a lot of great friends. we didn't fight; we didn't have some big wedge driven between us. we just went our separate ways and lived our lives. why do i tell you this? because it's a common story.

marlana, however, is not common.

about four years ago, marlana and i hung out. and then we hung out again. and then we started hanging out on a pretty regular basis. we had dinner at subway. and applebee's. and breakfast at an ihop, i believe. and somewhere in the middle of all of that, i rediscovered an amazing friend. she's beautiful, intelligent and witty. and above all of that, she's inspiringly independent. she's courageous and encouraging. she is uncommonly fabulous, and i love that we're back in each other's lives.