Being5.

No, I’m not talking about Janie and Chloe.

I’m talking about Fara and me!

The girls refused to take a picture in front of Sleeping Beauty’s castle at Disneyland, so Fara and I jumped in there ourselves. We don’t have many pictures together, if any, so I’m in love with this shot and the excitement of reuniting in LA for a weekend after not seeing each other for exactly two-years.

Real Simple Magazine was having a blogger contest last month on their Simply Stated Blog (a fantastic read, by the way) — the question was something like “describe your most unexpected friendship” and I wrote this entry about Fara. Obviously Real Simple didn’t pick my blog as a finalist (not bitter. no, not at all.), so I thought I’d post it here instead…

FROM SEATTLE TO NEW YORK, WITH LOVE.

Fara. Her name is Fara.

We only lived in the same city for nine-months. They moved to Seattle from New York, but it didn’t work out, so they had to move back. We only had nine-months together, but in that time, we built a friendship that shouldn’t have been, but was.

I met Fara at preschool. Our five-year old daughters bonded over a love of being overly dramatic, while Fara told me about life in THE City (what do you mean you didn’t have a car?) and we bonded while drinking too much coffee and too much wine.

Then they moved. I was heartbroken. I’m still am heartbroken, over a year later.

I tried to keep my distance after they moved back – I didn’t want to smother Fara while she was trying to make new friends in their new neighborhood and get settled in. Plus, I didn’t know if our friendship could survive from across the country. We’d just gotten to know each other. We were in our friendship honeymoon. How could we continue to make it grow?

But it has. The friendship that was never supposed to be is one of the most important relationships in my life. It has evolved and deepened since that short time that we spent together in Seattle and somehow we make the distance between New York and Seattle feel small.

It may be self-centered of me to think that the time Fara and her family spent in Seattle was meant for me – for her and I to find each other, but part of me thinks it’s true. Is sure that it’s true.

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