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I knew right then that I needed no one but myself to pull me up and keep going.

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I did know you. I did know the answers to those questions.. but I don’t anymore.

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The world works in such strange ways, doesn’t it? Who would have guessed that my 11th grade English teacher would become one of the most important people in my life? Certainly not me.

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We’ve never met. But you’ve changed my life in so many ways.

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Thank you for standing behind me, even when I couldn’t stand up for myself.

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Thank you for loving me right smack dab where I am at.

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I know I would be a different person if it had not been for all of you: I would not have this close bond with God and I cannot imagine being without it. 

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The truth is, we really are a compilation of all the people we have ever loved, of all the people we have ever been seen and held by.

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I try to imagine what would have happened if you’d not been there during the times I needed someone. It’s difficult to imagine. It would have been difficult without you.

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Thank you for helping me understand men like you never change.