Rachel

i met rachel around 7th grade, but we didn't really become best friends until we hit high school. her mother was my guardian for a while. she died in a car crash in 1999. there's more to say but it seems too long to really get into. i used to have frequent dreams in which we meet and she's still alive--and then i woke up confused about whether or not she's really dead--but those don't come as often now.