*I Cannot Forget From Where It Is I Come From, Cannot Forget The People Who Love Me*

Those were the words I was rocking out to on my way home last night, and they turned me into a total sap. I am a very lucky girl, because I have the most amazing friends in the world (and you know who you are!!) Some of you I met back in junior high while trying to avoid running "The Mile", some of you as I was finishing up high school and you corrupted me and turned me into the drunk I am today, and some of you I met a few years back when I finally awoke from a long and terrible nightmare with a smile back on my face. The thing is, some friends pass through our lives, and others are here to stay. And maybe we sometimes get made fun of for not leaving "the nest" and maybe we occasionally get called incestuous (ha ha), but I know this group is here to stay and I wouldn't have it any other way. (All I ask is that you don't someday tell my teenage children about all the trouble I got into - and I will do the same for you!!)

So I just wanted to say thanks - thanks for loving me through all my bullshit, thanks for letting me be who I am, thanks for sticking with me, thanks for believing in me, thanks for supporting me, thanks for making me laugh, thanks for letting me cry, thanks for not holding it against me when I drink too much, and thanks for not taking incriminating pictures of me and posting them on the web (oh, wait - Holly DOES do that!)

Anyway, sorry for being a sap. I raise my glass in a "Jeff Probst" to you all.

*And, Claire, you get extra points if you know the song I quoted above!