Tuesday, April 18, 2017
My Dearest Allison,
We have been friends for 63 years. We met when we were 2 years old, and as the story goes, I hit you over the head with a stick. Not my finest moment, but you never held it against me and we became the best of friends, nevertheless. How you loved to tell that story!
You and I, we were children together. We ran the streets & woods of Midland Park together, inventing adventures wherever we roamed. We watched cartoons together (Flintstones!) and then we drew our own with highly convoluted (so we thought) story lines.
We went to our first day of school together. We saw each other nearly every day for the first 10 years of our lives.
We were teenagers together, sharing our favorite make-up tips from Seventeen magazine, making our own dresses for dances and parties, hanging on the phone for hours discussing the Beatles, our parents, our hopes, our dreams and boys, boys, boys.
We went off to college, we married our sweethearts, we became mothers, we worked, we raised our families. Then, we sent our children off to college, to work, and when they married, had children, we were grandmothers together.
MS robbed you of so much, but never your loving heart and warm sense of humor. You were an inspiration to us all. There won't be a day to come that I won't miss you. Rest In Peace, my dear. You are now free to run among the stars.
I love you forever.
Your BFF,
Kathi
