"WE WILL be friends forever." "You are going to be a bridesmaid in my wedding." "We will never lose touch." My high school senior book is flooded with comments like this. There's even the occasional BFF -- best friends forever, for those of you not Valley Girl-literate. My sister, seven years older and light years more mature, laughed when she read them and said, "It's sweet now Maggie. It might be sweet your entire life. But time will pass and you will lose touch, trust me." I scoffed at her pessimism and chalked it up to her faults in keeping in touch with her own high school friends.
Before I shut the door of my bedroom the day I left for school I looked around longingly one last time at the 13 years of memories that crowded my walls. Corsages, posters, pictures, notes
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