I talk a lot about my other friends. Maybe not on here, but in plenty of other spaces, on paper and in music and however else, I will have ranted about a good friend. But for some reason entirely lost to me, not Daisy. Tonight I was a little sad. Not awful sad, just I'm-lonely-and-a-lot-of-people-are-asleep-and-I-only-like-about-five-people-on-the-planet-right-now kind of sad. So, I called her up. We didn't talk about me being sad. She asked, and I insisted I was fine (because I mostly was) and we talked about life and our days and whatever. And it made me feel better. And I remembered that I love this girl, a lot. Daisy is so strong. I have never met someone with such a powerful heart as she. Because the thing is, when you're around her, you can't help but find she's crept into your soul. She is kind and compassionate and optimistic in ways that I never could me. I, who always identified as the nice and optimistic one, find myself seeing the way that Daisy lives her life and striving to be better. She's never failed to show up for me. Not on the days where things could not have been worse and not on the days when things were pretty nearly wonderful. Even before we were awful close, she was the friend who came and saw Scarlet Letter twice (when the person I thought to be my best friend failed to come at all) and she's the one who made me a video of Spider-Man dancing to The Proclaimers when I lost a friend. But she is also the friend who held me together while I sobbed into her shoulder in the bathroom and lifted my spirits when for months I couldn't do it myself. And then there's just her magnificent mind. This girl's a walking encyclopedia of knowledge about everything from Harry Potter to Poison and is truly unparalleled in her rapier wit. There are so many sides to Daisy, and I am honored to know (probably) all of them. She is strong. She is brave. She is hilarious. She is kind. She is heroic. She is clever. She is magnificent. I guess what I'm trying to say, Daisy, is that I am so incredibly grateful I've got you, and that you watch over me the way you do. Thank you so much for being my friend. All my love.