bestfriends

00:00 Okay. Okay.

00:01 You ready?

00:03 What about your best friend initially drew you to them?

00:09 Well, this is a tricky question because I've known my best friend Caitlin since I was, like, a baby, since I was born. And so it's kind of hard because I've just always been around her. Our parents were best friends, and so we spent time to together all the time growing up. So I kind of just like. She's almost like a sister to me in the sense that we didn't necessarily, like, start being friends by choice, but I am glad that we are. And I think I'm consistently drawn to her because of her loyalty and her care and her compassion. She really does remind me so much of a sister. Having known her my whole life and not having a. Any memories of not knowing her, I'm just. I'm. I'm really grateful for our sisterly bond that we've been able to cultivate.

01:05 It's beautiful. Okay, tell me about the most cherished moment you've had with your best friend.

01:13 We've gotten to do a lot of really cool things together, I think. Oh, that's awesome. Hard one. When I was going into my senior year of high school, the summer before my senior year, I took a trip to Europe to visit some family that I have over there. And I was 16 at the time, and so I was scared to go alone, and my parents weren't super eager to send me alone. And so my family who lives over in Europe, told me that I could bring a friend if I wanted, and so I brought her. And so we were just 16 and 17. She had just turned 17, and we were traveling the world together. And it was really, really cool to get to share that, like, international travel experience with her. Traveling without any, like, adult supervision for the first time, like, getting to share that with her and getting to share so much of my family history with her. We get to go and visit a lot of places that my family comes from in Denmark and in Norway, and she got to meet all of my relatives. And it was really, really special to get to experience all of that with her, because it was a super unique experience for me as well. And so getting to have somebody to look back on that with is really, really special. Thank you.

02:43 Describe the moment you knew you'd be friends for life.

02:50 I don't know. I think that it's. It's happened in a lot of moments throughout growing up. I've just kind of always known that she's been there for me. The thing is that she lives. She lived really far away from me, not really far away, but we lived on opposite sides of San Antonio, and so we went to completely different schools. The only way we knew each other was through our parents. And so I really didn't get to, like, see her every day. It wasn't like, a school best friend or anything like that, but I always kind of knew that, like, no matter. No matter how long it's been, we've always been able to pick back up and be just as close as we were before. And we spent a lot more time in our childhood, But I think there would be moments where we would make efforts to come and see each other in, like, really difficult times. I remember when I was. My senior year, when I. When I was broken up with, she took a whole, like, weekend to just come and come and spend time with me and had all of these, like, things planned and, like, let me just talk for hours about it. And then we just had a bunch of fun. And she really made that first weekend that I was, you know, single really, really fun. And. And that was definitely a moment that I knew. And then just, like, going off to college. And every single time that I've seen her since, like, even, like, we barely see each other anymore just because we go to different schools and we're both super busy people. But every time I do get to see her, it just. It's like nothing has. Nothing has changed. And I think that that is something that symbolizes, like, a really, really, really good friendship. Friendship for life.

04:43 Well, thank you, Hannah. I really appreciate hearing your stories, and thank you so much for sharing. Yeah, I would love to publish your story. It's a storycorps. Would you be okay with that? Yeah, perfect.