Joyce

I met her when I was very young. We had a lot of mutual friends due to the fact that we're both Filipino and would always see each other at those loud, crowded Filipino get-togethers.

We began to talk more in middle school where we eventually became the best of friends. Funny how that happens. We don't talk much anymore, since I moved to Austin and she's still five and a half hours away down in Brownsville, TX. But fortunately, our friendship is pretty low-maintenance--we talk once or twice a month, but each conversation is always hours long and involves obscene amounts of laughing, updating, gossiping, shouting, profanity, and a good ol' dose of nostalgia. I miss her a lot sometimes.