My First Best Friend!

This morning I was craving chocolate, so I opened up one of my Dove's, you know, the one's with the little Promise Message's inside, and mine read, "Remember your first best friend." I did, her name was Maureen Druin, she was my BFF from the fourth grade up to the year we both went to High school. The summer before High School her family moved away and opened up a restaurant, and we spent the entire summer writing back and forth to each other. I even went up to visit her in her new town, and helped bus tables at her parents restaurant for extra cash. We both took our hard earned cash and bought a dessert and hot chocolate that we split over endless gossip, then went and purchased spray paint, gold, so we could spray our names under a bridge in her new town to ensure that everyone knew we were BFF's.
We did everything together, we both watched The Fonz, the Donny and Marie Show and wore the same clothes. We would listen to the same music, listen to her older sister Cybil talk about college, and we both thought boys were yuck! The only boys we loved were Fonzie and Donny, she was in love with Fonzie, and I was in love with Donny. We both would call my little brother a nerd, her being the Fonz and me being the Donz,and I wore purple socks like Donny did on the show, and Maureen would roll up her shirt collars, stick up both her thumbs and say, "Aye". We shared secrets like BFF's do, and we vowed to always be friends forever.
Then I went home to start my freshman year, and we continued to write each other constantly and during our first school break she came to visit me that week. We both had grown up some, perhaps because now we were in High School and we had to shed of the adolescent things we had done over the years, we were becoming women. I had new friends, but she was still my BFF, but somehow we just both were different. I don't know what happened, but after that week on school break, we both wrote less and less to each other, and I became more engrossed with my new friends and even threw out my purple socks. By my junior year we had stopped writing completely, and we both never heard from each other again but yet I never stopped thinking of her. I often wondered what became of her, and even tried to Google her name, and search on places like Facebook for her with no luck. I can only hope that where ever she is, that there are days that she too thinks of me and smiles when ever she sees The Fonz or Donny and Marie on TV.
Of course I have had new BFF's over the years, but none of them will ever compare to my first best friend, she was the foundation of the women I had become, and deep in my heart, she will always be my BFF!!