Met Janice made, is in 35 years ago, I was in high school in the first day, I was just 13 years old. The next six years, jie, every week and processes, an hour on the phone, and also often spent together weekend in the evening. Whenever and boys break up, we will be together crazy drink potatoes soup, and our sorrow and soup drinking it together. In the old house in the country side, we played with crazy make, cursed in the west of Chicago, on Halloween night, we sat in al capone (was a famous racketeer in Chicago) graves, together with a blanket looked up at the sky, we talk about their dreams, to the secret of the bottom of each other.
Janice made the dream to Broadway stage singing, I dream of writing his novel, "why don't we all realize the two of us?" Jerry was just a joke, seemed to hover in the ear.
As high school started, I became a student cadres, and for good grades and made many friends. Janice made it, she chooses the low-key life and never attention in school. But to me, she's just like my pocket of angel, I've never abandoned her, never rejected her. The other are difficult to understand our harmonious, because our character and performance looks so opposition, but we are so good.
We are not a doting parents special children. Janice made parents busy at work every day, and my parents also is same, didn't have the energy to hear me school thing, although mother will ensure that I dressed-she wanted me to become the most beautiful girl (and most thin).
Janice made and I kept lasting only to our inner circle, and even in the university are not destroyed. We on the big time, jie, unexpectedly became pregnant and gave birth to a daughter, this let we have to separate, jie and moved back to the home, and my mother gave her economic and emotional support.
But unfortunately, my mother finally or not as her granddaughter's grandmother. Soon she was infected with a terminal illness, the doctor announced that she only have a few months time, in order to enable her to see her daughter married, and I was looking for a married man. This marriage also continued to just graduated from the university, and, after that, I return to their hometown to find the job, now support my brother in high school.
So, I and Janice made and then together, but this time many a baby sitting in the car 后排座, no matter where we go with her.
But one thing but we parted. It is in my 25 years old, I began to work in a Wisconsin a newspaper, often have to five o 'clock in the morning every day it up with a day's challenge. The busy work that I can't often go home, and not have enough time with Janice made....... And just is at this time, Janice made love deeply of the father was diagnosed with cancer, the most vulnerable in jay and, most in need of my company, I failed to hand. All because I can't attend the funeral and father, jerry broke out, I'll never forget the look in the eyes of sorrow, jie and finally say with me of that sentence:
"You betrayed me."
I apologize for thousands of times, and the door of their apartment in jay, in the letter, the CARDS, repeated requests, jie understand and forgive, but, stubborn she never forgive me.
When I married again, Janice made no appear; When I love eldest son was born, this should is to let them know of her and did not appear; And when my second and third son was born, jie, or not to be.
But, when cancer comes to my husband's body, jie, finally appeared. We didn't talk about our friendship cracks, I was coming under that seems to come from the sadness of hell, maybe as jie several years ago, the pain of the same, and a see Janice made, I couldn't help but twitching up, because grateful, but also for comfort.
We went back to the childhood phone porridge, spending time together. When others give me the setback, said I delusions, jie and told me to firm forward, after her husband's death a year later, she encouraged me to try to write his first novel, not just get a job, "you can do it".
Finally, my novel, deeply the Pacific Ocean ", became a best-seller list in the first. Janice made excited to celebrate for me, and this is my husband lost in the two years later. Later, jie, got the university diploma, and successfully became a teacher and sound, finally has a chance to get up on stage and even advertising a little, and I also excited to celebrate for her.
When he came to, and at the age of 40, her legs come down with the disease. She can't go out to work, but she never gave up, she started taking drugs, try all kinds of treatment, but the condition is did not get better, but as the day wore on deterioration. Finally, took his jie, the ability to speak, Janice made with muscle atrophy sclerosis.
We was optimistic about his illness, because although the disease infection risk of women than men, but, when it happened in women, often not so serious, many old people infected with the disease but in a wheelchair can under the help of the live to be 90 years old.
Four years ago, I suddenly realized, my dearest love friend, dream stood in the Broadway stage performing friends, but have never seen a Broadway play. So we go together, Janice made on crutches, dress and I am the fans of the shirt. When listening to the leading role singing his dream, my mood is completely flying in the music in: I want for our story, for jie and writing a novel.
Last spring, my new book published, in Washington, d.c., we got a book signing tour ceremony. In the "lean on me" melodious melodies, I looked up to see me, and jay photos, I head on jie, shoulder, the host read in a letter addressed to me, jie: "we are friends of a lifetime, when she knew I suffer from the disease, she first firmly jump out, and I together and fight disease and, for me, she is more than just friends, she is my heart!"
Janice made said and did not my heart now? And we when together, jie, need to rely on in my body, but I again is how need to rely on her! When I met the problem or difficult, and who can like her so understand me, understand me!
At this time, she is still there in my side, this let me unlimited comfort.
