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Let me tell you ladies and gentlemen how love can blindsight us, even the simple love such as friendship love. I had my first best friend at the age of twelve which was about ten years ago. She was the brave one I was the shy one. She was the free spirit I was the responsible one. You get the idea.There wasn't anything I wouldn't agree on with her. As we got older we went out to clubs she always wanted all of the attention from boys.She would get jealous if someone tried to talk to me instead of her. Automatically she would point their supposed faults and so forth.

One summer when I visited my other country she went with my boyfriend which I truly forgave her for because we were young and clueless back then. Then in highschool when we had dance classes together she was a little hater then too.I mean this girl used to spend nights with me and my family she used to use my adress to go to the better highschool in town and all of these things. No matter how good of a friend I was she would still be spiteful and jealous. I forgave so many things that she did. She was a manipulator that only wanted to use me not befriend me. Recently she tried to communicate with me and I decided to give it a try, but it didn't work out because she hasn't changed a bit.
I have another best friend now that's truly a friend. We have been best friends for almost seven years now. Even though we live in different states and have our own families we still talk and visit each other. We bring each other up when the other is down and we make each other laugh when the other one cries.
Because lets face it true friendship is not about color, is not about age, its not about bloodlines or genetics. Its about sharing secrets, feelings,being honest even when it hurts. So basically what I did with the bad friend I just simply cut her out of my life. A first it was not talking on the phone as much, trying to avoid her as much as possible even getting new friends until she got the message. Its so hard for truly caring people to abandon bad friends but those people will not change they will just continue to take advantage of your good heart.
Another thing is that when we are young we tend to relocate a lot or our parents move and we lose phone numbers, or get busy with work or just find new friends and forget about the old ones. It's not like we do it on purpose it just happens. That's life. Now that I'm older and hopefully a little wiser I try my best to keep a good friendship in tact no matter how busy I am with the things that go on around me.

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