Through the years, things in my life have changed. I've moved around quite a bit. People have come and gone from my life. But our friendship has remained though out the years. It's has been the only constant and stable thing in my life. If I didn't have that who knows what would have happened. She was there when my family turned their back on me. Valerie is more a part of my family then my own family is.

We use to do everything together. We even bought the same stuff with out the other one there or even knowing about it. Back in ‘84 her family went to Texas. While Valerie was there she bought a "David Lee Roth" poster. (He was our heart throb.) Well the same weekend my family went to World's fair in New Orleans. I bought the same poster. We did the same thing with shoes. And didn't know it till the next day when we wore them to school. Same thing happened when we got sick. We were home all day and didn't know the other one was till school was over. Teachers said we were skipping school together. It was really weird.

We use to walk and ride our bikes every where. At any time and in any weather. One time we was walking, she pushed me into a pond. We even rode our bikes across town just to ride by a guy's house. But once we reached the age to drive, we forgot about our bikes and walking. We use to call each other on the phone, and not say anything to each other. Or we would go riding in the car and not speak. Just knowing the other person was there was enough.