You know, I have a knack for finding wonderful people. Not just the nice kind of people. The people who are genuinly good.

 psychoshounen celebrated her birthday yesterday. If there is one person I had more history with, it would have to be myself because I've had Erin as a friend for 16 years now.

Both her and I were latchkey kids at the same YMCA day camp up in Port Huron, Michigan. I was going into third and her into fourth grade. I found out in the middle of that summer that I would be moving to the same town as her. After spending a miserable year in Port Huron (thanks to certain members of the public school system) We moved to another town, Marysville, where Erin lived. While we weren't terribly close she was one of those people that was kinda there and I would play baseball with during recess.

One of the coolest things about her was that while we weren't really close friends, and I didn't have any, she didn't care and let me play regardless. Her and I really didn't start becoming really close friends until middle school. I started getting into the whole anime thing and started trying to follow my brother (http://kuroitora.deviantart.com) as an artist. Found out she was an artist too! So her and our little art group would get together and art.

When the Detroit News and Detroit Freepress unions went on strike and the mainly union town started coming down on our family, ( sending death threats, kids alienating me etc) She didn't care at all, and kept being my friend. She knew I was the same person despite what all the little sheeple knew.

We dated for a bit through late middle school and early highschool. Put through trial and tribulation one after another. Yet no matter what we were still friends.

I moved down here to GA and we re learned how good of friends we were. To be honest, while I have a great deal many of acquaintances and good people. But people like Erin, Alex, and Nick are people I can't replace.. I'm so lucky to know you Erin. Happy birthday!!