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Friend!!
    What a New Year’s Eve I had last night! Where do I begin? First, my aunt tried to surprise me and invited Todd to come to their house for a fancy New Year’s Eve dinner. I didn’t know he was there so when I walked downstairs and heard someone playing the mandolin in the living room, I thought my aunt had hired someone to play music while we ate. I know, that sounds crazy, but if you knew my aunt, that’s exactly the kind of thing she would do.
    When I saw that it was Todd I almost screamed! He told me earlier he had plans for the evening and I thought he was going out with another girl. I never guessed the plans were with me!
    After the fancy dinner, we went to Heather’s house for the party and on the way I told Todd about Alissa and the baby. He’s sure that the baby is Shawn’s, which shocked me. I hadn’t tried to figure out who the father was.
    Then Todd said the most amazing thing. He said that even though what Shawn and Alissa did was wrong, they created a human life and that life had something that was going to last forever—a soul. And then he said, “Even angels can’t do that.” That really stunned me when I thought about it later. I will never think of people the same way again. Every human has a soul. And every soul will last forever. Where that soul spends eternity depends on how they choose to respond to God. I’m still amazed by that thought.
    But anyway, I have something else to tell you. When Todd and I left the party, we were driving back to my aunt and uncle’s in Gus. (I told you about Gus, didn’t I? Gus the Bus? Todd’s old VW van?) We finally got to talk about “us” and we both were saying that we wanted to be the kind of friends who were friends forever and then Todd stopped at this intersection. He pulled me out of the van and when we stood in from of the headlights, I realized it was “our” intersection! The place where we stood last summer when he kissed me good-bye when I was leaving to go back home to Wisconsin.
    I was laughing and telling him this was crazy and then he gave me this bracelet! It’s so beautiful. I love it! It’s a gold ID bracelet with the word “Forever” engraved on it. That’s when he told me that no matter what happened in the future, we would always be friends forever.
    I’m smiling so big right now. I’ve never felt like this before in my whole life. And I think part of the reason is because I feel as if this bracelet represents more than just Todd and my forever friendship with him. Every time I look at this bracelet, it will remind me of the eternal part of me that’s going to go on forever. My heart and soul belong to God and I am His forever!
January 14
    Dear SF,
    Do you know what today is? It’s Todd’s birthday. I know. I didn’t know it either. I can’t believe I never asked him when his birthday was. I feel really bad because I didn’t get him a card or anything. I found out it was his birthday because Doug called and said they were going to have a party for him over at Tracy’s and he asked if I could go up to Newport Beach for the party. It’s an hour and a half drive to my aunt and uncle’s house, which is near Tracy and Doug and Todd. I was so upset because I couldn’t work out any way of getting up there and my aunt and uncle are going away this weekend so I’d have to stay at Tracy’s and my mom didn’t think that was a good idea. So I’m not going.
    My parents let me call Todd and talk to him for a long time after school today. I spent the first ten minutes apologizing. Todd, in his usual ultra-casual way kept telling me to not worry about it. I told him I hoped we could see each other again soon and he said he might be able to come down here next weekend. I sure hope it works out! If he comes, maybe I can bake a belated birthday cake for him or give him a present then. But what? Guys are so hard to buy for.
    Remember when I didn’t know what to get for Rick or Todd for Christmas? Well Rick has done a