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Friendship
Did You Ever Lose a Best Friend Too?
Some people arrive in our lives to be a bright light… until they leave.
Once I had a best friend in the world and now we are strangers. How did it happen?
It was a relationship that was as important to me as a marriage. Completely different from a partner relationship, but just as strong.
We met at a creative writing course. I remember when she first came — brought by a friend — and I remember that I thought that she looked tired. I didn’t think at the time that she would become my closest soul in the whole world. But when we started talking, we found out we had so much in common.
I didn’t know before how it feels to have a soulmate
The creative writing was full of amazing people. We were so close, we loved each other so much, and I loved her most of all. We resonated on a level that I couldn’t even imagine before.
We were inseparable. Everyone said our names in the same breath. Arte and Hela, Hela and Arte. Her name still sounds like a song to me, and a wave of love and elation still rushes through my heart. But the relationship is empty now.
