Dear Leah,
I haven't stopped thinking about you. You're a dominant figure in my life. I can't believe that for the thirteen falls, winters, and springs you were alive i didn't get to know you better. I want you to know i love you more than i have every loved anyone. You're such a good listener. I love writing to you. Everywhere.
I had a best friend. He's still alive- but not healthy. Towards the end of December he was on vacation for winter break at his farm house with his family and his best guy friend. He overdosed on Heroine, and went into a coma. For the 36 long hours he was in a coma his friends were worried for his life. He could have died in those hours. Thanking god, he did not. He went to rehab for a month, where he did NOT get better. He smuggled drugs into the rehabilitation center. When he got out of rehab roughly a month later he came to visit some people at school, and when he came... he was high. I love him so much, and his birthday was Wednesday, but i couldn't bring myself to write him a letter. I was thinking about you, and how if your friends could be writing concrete letters to you, they would. We all love you down here on earth, and I'm sure everyone up there in heaven loves you too. You inspire me in every decision i make, even just about writing a letter to a childhood friend.
Thanks for all your help.
You changed my life, and so many others. You changed all of us here in MTL. We realized what it's like to lose someone we care about, and how to care about someone who is gone. You taught us how to love and lose, lose and love. You taught us to be strong. You taught us to be happy. You taught us how to be kind. You taught us how to speak our minds. You taught us how to listen. You taught us how to respect ourselves. You taught us how to respect others. I can only wish you were here with us, teaching us through your life. If you were here, though, and i sound so selfish saying this, but i would have never knew you and been as close to you as i am now. You're my diary, Leah. I love you and miss you so much. I don't deserve to be alive, you do. It should have been me, and everyone in MTL believes that, as well. You've changed our community. It wasn't fair for such a sweet, kind, loving, lovable, young, beautiful, helpful girl to pass away, especially like this.
As always...
Always&forever,
Carly