Thank you for the bracelet you made me in your arts and crafts class

Thank you for showing me your passion for playing through the glowing gleam of your sparkling, hazel eyes

Thank you for pushing me into the pool while I still had all my clothes on, and was trying to get you to come inside to eat your macaroni and cheese.

Thank you for sharing your love for cats with me and playing with Artemis until he scratched and bit us from getting annoyed by our interminable company

Thank you for making me laugh by climbing to the top of the statue in the restaurant when no one was looking and screaming, “I’m king of the world” as loud as you could

Thank you for your incessant complaining about how I was always so mean to you, when I never even was

Thank you for singing the soft kitty lullaby every five minutes our entire time in Disney World in your youthful and jubilant voice

Thank you for playing hide and seek with me and telling my brothers where I was hiding every single time

Thank you for scaring me half to death when you sat with my little brother in the lawn mower and let him drive at full speed down your long driveway

Thank you for getting angry at us for leaving and crying before our flight back home

Thank you for making me cry as well for I already missed you before our car even left your driveway

Thank you for the heart-warming memories I will always cherish and remember and yearn

Thank you for teaching me what it means to love and to be loved in return.