I Love..

I love my best friend, we’ve been together since I was 13, she was 14 and we met in Geography class..we had a joint propensity for drawing filthy captions beneath pictures of shiny headed Zambians or gurning Inuits, so it was ‘pals at first sight.’
In the decades since, we’ve experienced every human joy and suffering together, gotten up to the most outrageous antics, and never with one cross word between us, although neither..until recently..have we said the words ‘I love you’ to each other..we’re just not like that and it kind of went without saying until circumstances deemed it something of a necessity.
Today is her birthday and we’re throwing a party for her..hubs spent yesterday baking and the place is piled with food and drink..none of which I’m allowed to have..but I don’t care.I have been blessed with my friends and my family and having them here together to celebrate the solar return of one of the most special of them..is all the sustenance I need.
I just wanted to say it in type..I love you Joyce.