from friend Jem

a heartwarming letter written to me by Jepoi...

(copied and pasted in its original form)

08.01.08

Michigurl…

They say true friends are pretty hard to find. I totally disagree. Finding one isn’t like rocket science where you need the exact amount of energy coupled with the perfect aerodynamics to launch it way up into the heavens. Finding friends is more like scurrying about a grassy field, looking for that four-leaf clover. There isn’t really an assurance you will find one, but the mere fact that you know its there, makes you go on and provides you with the will to continue on, trying to find that one, rare creation. There are some of us though, who are born so friggin lucky (irish blood and all) that they find themselves stumbling on an oasis of four leaf clovers… do you get what I’m trying to say? We are your bunch of four leaf clovers… adik.

Anyway… so I was thinking what would be the perfect going away present for you. I thought about asking god to give you more sex appeal, but I figured u actually don’t need anymore. A dash more of sexiness and you would be using Angelina Jolie’s face as a floor mop. Imagine that. And that would mean you and brad pitt going at it. Sans all the adopted kids of them brad and angie… So I thot to myself, NAH… I wont ask God to give her more sex appeal…

Maybe I should ask God to make give her the brain power that would rival that of Ghandi… but I figured, I didn’t want u getting assassinated… So I scratched that off my “ASK FOR MICH FROM GOD” list…

Oh I know… I’ll ask God to give mich more money. That way, she can share her blessings to her less fortunate frends like me, and then everybody else would be happy… But God said.. NAH, cant give her that, it will only turn you clovers (reference to friends) into leeches… (Jeez,where exactly did that come from?!? All the angst…) Anyway, so that didn’t cut it.

And all of a sudden, I had a light bulb moment (special effects: spotlight coming from heaven seemingly pointing on a book I owned authored my Mitch Albom……. Getting the drift ei?)

And there it was… a book. Hahahahaha…

I hate being serious. I hate mushy stuff. But some days, I let my guard down and become the sensitive puffy marshmallow Jem I really am. seriously. There is a sensitive side to me. And for all the lies ive told the world, I am not making this one up.

Thank you for somehow making this sojourn (your favorite word I know) a bit easier. Thank you for making us realize that the most simple joys in life shouldn’t be the pricey stuff… but the moments you get to share your laughter to the world and to make others laugh at the same time. Maybe you just don’t know, but because you came into all of our lives, its shown us that the good still outweighs the bad in this world by a few gazillion times.

Yes… we hate to say it. Urghhh we dread saying it. And theres no point in saying it but for these kinds of moment it just has to be said. We say goodbye because a new chapter is beginning for you and you may not be aware, but for all of us who will be missing you bad. We say goodbye because this is how life is. For some reason, our patch of clover will have learned more about life and your mission is to move on and find other patches of clover that need a tad bit more happiness. And we let you go knowing true well that where ever you go, you would have made a few more people believe that this world aint so bad at all.

Bye… We will see you around FO SHO!!!

Jem