I've heard it said that people come into our lives for a reason. Bringing something
we must learn, and we are led to those who help us most to grow if we let them, and
we help them in return. Well, I don't know if I believe that's true, but I know I'm
who I am today because I knew you. Like a comet pulled from orbit as it passes a
sun. Like a stream that meets a boulder halfway through the wood. Who can say if
I've been changed for the better? But because I knew you I have been changed for
good. It well may be that we will never meet again in this lifetime, so let me say
before we part so much of me is made of what I learned from you. You'll be with me
like a handprint on my heart. And now whatever way our stories end I know you
have re-written mine by being my friend.