We met when we were children, both eleven years old with paper dolls, coloring books, and we played jacks on the kitchen floor. We shared our dreams, spent whole nights giggling, traded clothes, and created lifelong memories of wild adventures.
Time slipped by almost accidentally and we grew up together – still best friends.
We are still growing up together – and still best friends.
Kit gave us nicknames way back when first we met.
She was Kit-the-Wit and I was Dort-the-Snort (Dort short for Dorothy). When we are together we still use those names. If we are shopping, Kit will call me to look at something. “Hey Snort – look at this!” Sometimes I wonder what people think.
To celebrate the arrival of 2020 I received a package from my Oldest Best Friend Forever. And here was my reply:
Dear Wit, I now have a collection of 3 Best Friend books from you. Earlier you sent “Kindred Spirits, Forever Wacky Friends”. I have it behind glass in our breakfront.
But now I love the last one best – the one that came today called “I’m Lucky to Have a Friend Like You” and I love the pictures and comments you included in the front. We both look so young and beautiful. We didn’t even know how young and beautiful we really were did we?
Then there is the 3rd book…the birthday gift…the laughter when you’re at “Wit’s end.” So clever and what a reminder about the role laughter played through all our years as friends.
Such a beautiful thing! What a gift to have such a wonderful and fun lifelong friend – you are blessed!
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What a priceless friendship you have! I’m glad you wrote about Wit.
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So moving! Happy New Year to you both.
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Oh what beautiful memories you have Dora, and how nice to honour your best friend in this way. she will be so proud to read it. HAPPY NEW YEAR to you, your best friend and your family.
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Nothing, absolutely nothing beats a lifelong friend. Husbands are often in that category, but girlfriends are different because they are much more in tune with our lives. Lucky you, lucky Wit!
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Old (or long tenured) friends are the best. I don’t have any that long except for my niece who is my age. We grew up together and are alike in a lot of ways. You were beautiful. I want to go back and tell my young self that. She was so full of doubt.
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This is a wonderful post!! Friends are so important in our lives. And that bathing suit – WOWEEEEEE!
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Beautiful! I have one of those friends forever kind of friends. How blessed we are to have them. ❤
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Friendship is always special but a friendship this long and this consistently happy is definitely priceless. Thanks Anne.
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Thankyou Cindy and a Happy New Year to you too! 🙂
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Thanks so much Rita! Kit is truly the most special friend of all since we have been a pair for so many years. It is over 70 years now Imagine?
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And that’s a fact – “nothing beats a lifelong friend.” I actually count Kit as family . Thanks Tina for putting it all into the right words.
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Yes, my young self was also full of doubt and convinced I was an ugly duckling. Thankyou Kate…. we share that urge to go back and tell our young selves they were A.O.K.
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Wish I still looked like that in a bathing suit! 🙂
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It is truly an amazing thing to have a friendship last so long. I am happy you have one too. We are surely blessed.
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Beautiful then and now ~ loved the tribute to friendship that lasts through time.
Read this the other day, “good friends go for the laugh .. real friends go for the snort!” So there you go 🙂
Beautiful post, MJ
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Sweet remembrance with a friend. Loved the photos.
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What beautiful ladies! You look like “bathing beauties.” Lovely post, Dor.
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What a lovely friendship and thoughtful gift ❤
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Thanks Emjay! I really have to laugh at the “real friends go for the snort.” 🙂
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Thankyou Al! 🙂
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I think we were trying to be bathing beauties for sure! Thanks Jill. You would have made our day.
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Thankyou! It really is a lovely friendship that seems to go on forever and ever.
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Such a beautiful thing! Best Friends Forever
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