Thankful for a classmate (Emily Hawkins is the Bomb)

My blog topic is inspired by the the response I wrote to this prompt FRESHMAN YEAR for McCarthy's American Lit class. Emily and I were in that class together and I wrote about being thankful for her Freshman year so I feel like I have to Senior year as well. Not that I didn't want to.
Anyways if you wanna read my FRESHMAN YEAR post http://emilyismyhorcrux.blogspot.com/2011/11/thankfulness-emily-hawkins-is-bomb.html

Dear Emily, (this is how the OG post starts)

Thanks for being in my philosophy class. Even though you're leaving next semester to be a physical trainer for senior experience. Its whatever. I'm not mad about it. I'm really glad that I can still look at you in class and read your mind. (Didn't you sit behind me Freshman year also?) We were really mean then and we're even meaner now. I like it.

"I love the way you smell." That is a quote from my FRESHMAN YEAR blog post. So most of all I am thankful that we are not like our Freshman year selves. I'm really glad we grew and changed together and are even better friends now. I'm glad we still like nerdy things but its not the only thing we talk about anymore. I am thankful that we are still friends even though Freshman year was awful and we thought we were really cool but actually we were super lame. It makes me worry that I'm even lamer now then I realize.

"I am thankful you're alive and tolerate me"
-Gianna Clark, 2011