Her smile  I met her when I began working at an equestrian barn on weekends. Though I was a few years older than her, we became friends almost instantly. We would ...

Like a sister to me  I lost my best friend of 37 years to cancer on Father's Day this year. She was like the sister I never had. It has been extremely hard on me. Instead ...

Loss of a true friend too soon  My lovely friend passed away on the 8th July 2011, believing she had food poisoning one day and the doctor been called two days later, meant she was taken ...

It Will Be Six Years In September  And I still remember it like it was yesterday. My best friend Brittany's life was cut way too short. She battled for her life for a year and ultimately ...

Kats and Dawgs  My best friend of almost 10 years was murdered by her boyfriend, she was only 24. The evidence against him isn't substantial enough without a confession ...

Oh Alex...  My dear friend and constant companion, Alex was killed by a drunk driver on April 14th 2011, and I can’t stop crying. My heart is broken and I am simply ...

My Girls  My Aunt Karen--who was also one of my closest friends died from ovarian cancer on December 13, 2010. She was 58 years old. My cousin Leanne(Lee)--who ...

Lost Co-worker  My co-worker who sat just about two feet from me for 2 1/2 years died of an illness a few months ago. You don't get to 50 plus years without having lost ...

Christmas Eve  12-24-2010 lost one of my best friends since the 6th grade, in the past 2 years his brother has become my fiance so he was around a lot more than before....

The Pain Hurts!  My friend, Girma Nigussie, 35, was suddenly hospitalized for colon cancer for about seven months in 2010. He fled Ethiopia due to political unrest in the ...

My friend, gone so fast.  My friend Sonya died on October 29, 2010. We also lost a little girl in the accident. It happened on my birthday. Sonya called me that morning to tell ...

My Friend Darell  Sometimes, I wonder exactly how much pain one could handle before he/she shatters completely. More than twenty years ago, my husband Richard drowned while ...

Not just a house keeper  When my husband and I moved to Durban just over 3 years ago we found out the day we arrived we were pregnant. It was not planned but a huge blessing. My ...

My best friend.  On October 1st, 2010 I was at a meeting in the local hospital where I work. The meeting was of all the Department Managers and our Vice President got ...

Half of Me Went to Heaven that Day  I lost my best friend, Kasey, two months ago in a car accident. It was actually the night of my birthday, August 13th. We had been so excited all week ...

Bette  My friend Bette committed suicide two weeks ago. She had lost a son to alcohol and drug poisoning (She was 6 years clean and sober) a year ago and just ...

Loss of friend to suicide  Bob* was one of my best friends and was like a big brother to me. When we first became close, he was abusing substances, and I was starting to get involved ...

Everybody's Friend Leonard  My next door neighbor and the best friend I've had in a long time was murdered, dismembered and burned November 18, 2009. His son stands accused and is ...

My Best Friend Allie  I lost my best friend, Allie, on August 30, 2009 to Ovarian Cancer. She was diagnosed Aug 2, 2009. She was my best friend, my sister, my confidant- my ...

My Chuck  We were friends, nine yrs. He was the best thing that ever happened to me. We talked, played, loved & really enjoyed life together. Now he's gone & my ...

My Best Friend Annie  Annie and I became friends 16 years ago. It wasn't long and we were sisters, family. I loved her kids, she loved mine. We were as thick as thieves. Birthdays ...

My life without my "Locke"  On February 21 2010, my friend John Locke Churchill died of cancer. He'd been fighting it for about 2 years and even through all the tough times and ...

Her Memory Will Never Die  I was packing all my luggage, I was getting ready for my first trip away, I was heading to Punta Cana, Dominican Rupublic with my boyfriend. As I was packing ...

One Month Later  A month ago, on the 28th April 2010 I received a phone call that a childhood friend of 11 years had died in a horrible car accident earlier that morning....

My Aunt Julie  I'm not sure where to post this one, but my Aunt Julie does qualify as being a friend. She was my godmother, and she ended up saving my life. Too bad she ...

I'm hurting and I'm angry. Why did you throw it all away?  They say, "Don't speak ill of the dead." "They say, "She's not here to defend herself now." But it's your own doing that you're not here. And I need to ...

I guess heaven was needing a hero?  Maci was perfect, everything a senior in high school would dream of being. She was gorgeous, popular, on the varisty cheerleading squad, and a friend to ...

The Friend I Almost Lost Is Me.  I truly understand that instructions are to write about someone else, but this is the closest I could come to in regard to telling you whom I almost lost....

My best friend is gone forever and there is nothing i can do to bring her back  On Monday morning on March 30, 2009, I decided not to go to school that day because I had a feeling it was going to be a miserable day. I went back to ...

Rick Pirko: the Perfect Stranger  It still pains me sometimes, to think about who was lost on October 15, 2008. He was a friend of mind, and a stranger nonetheless. I had known Rick for ...

I wish I had 10 more minutes...  Joni, my dearest friend, a person that meant more to me than words can describe. I lost her one day, suddenly. She collapsed of a brain aneurysm and ...

Brittany and Ashley were best friends   Ashley, I love u and I miss u and I want u back. I hate your Dad because he shot you, you died and you can't come back. We was really best friends, we ...

How my friend killed herself.  My friend, Lexie. She was a nice and cheery girl. But yesterday, this man, named Blader, tried to kill her. She was fine and she got stitches and Blader ...

Loosing a friend as a teenager is hard.  I never really lost anyone close to me. Besides my grandfather who died before I was born, everyone is still alive.

I never felt the pain of knowing ...

Sonny  My story starts five years ago, when I was 20 years old and alone. I had no food, no money, no family (or so I thought). I met him one day when I was at ...

MY BESTFRIEND IS GONE AND I NEVER GOT TO SAY GOODBYE  IT SO VERY SHOCKING,THE NEWS I GOT TODAY MY BEST FRIEND LISA HAS PASSED AWAY, 22 YEARS OF FRIEND SHIP SEEMS LIKE YESTERDAY,SO MANY MEMORIES,AND I NEVER ...

A big brother 
My friend and coworker of ten years succumbed to cancer after six months of the diagnosis. He was only 45 years old. He was a big brother to me and ...

like a mother to me  I've known my boyfriends mother for 11 years. She was my mother away from my real mother, who lives 6 hours away. She had been dealing with pain for ...

Still waiting for your call...  Every year around the 23rd of December Matt called me. No matter where he was he called me. Even when he was overseas fighting in Iraq. He made sure to ...

My Mentor, My Friend a Father figure  I lost my most loved friend HAPS few days back. I was informed by a phone call from India by a neighbor of his. I could not believe he had passed away....

Idell C,  My Sister/friend Angie past away on Friday November 18,2011 in a car accident on her way to work she was turning 35 years on nevember 27.. this is so painful ...

I was not enough to live for  We met through our mutual best friend years ago, but became really close in the last 9 months. I have talked to him every day. Last night I stayed up talking ...

My Bri-Bri  In march of 2010 I lost a dear friend to suicide. He had only relayed to me how depressed he was eight days before he took his life. The magnitude of the ...

Just 19  My friend was in a car accident with no one found at fault. Her car somehow ended up hitting a median and from there she was hit on the drivers side when ...

"It's Time"  One week ago, today, my best friend's sister (and my friend), Holly, committed suicide. She was 18...Just graduated high school (like me). A bright, beautiful ...

losing a loved one...  i loss my beloved friend honey she was 20 when we first know she got a cancer n she suffer for almost a year in a hospital. it's really hard specially ...

Greiving for a friend.........  I lost my friend and ex-colleague of 7 years today, two years ago. He died suddenly.I knew he was sick, I could see his body becoming frail and he was ...

I just found out my friend has died - due to cancer  My Friend and I met a few years back prob, about 1997 time. I worked at a Chemist and this girl called Lisa came in looking for cosmetics for her scared ...

How Do I say goodbye to my friend?  I received a phone call on 1/18/2011 from a co-worker telling me the sad news that a dear friend (another co-worker) had passed away in a horrible car ...

I never told him  I have a hard time explaining to those who didn't know him why an entire community was rendered utterly inconsolable by his sudden death. Who was he to ...

I Never Thought It Would End Like That  When I was very young I met my first, and probably still my best friend, Matthew. Matt was special, he had a lot of health issues but he never let that ...

Graduation and a car accident  He and I dated for 8 months in my sophomore and his senior year of high school.

It was getting to be the end of my senior year, and my friends and ...

My Best Friend Fred  I have already wrote here about Fred and the friendship that we shared which was unique, beautiful, comforting etc. I just wanted to add I heard a song ...

My dear wonderful friend Fred  My best friend ever passed away June 12th 2010 and I just found out Sat. June 18th. I had been phoning him for over 2 weeks (he had Lymphoma) and he ALWAYS ...

My Almost Perfect Summer  I was studying abroad for what was supposed to be my most perfect summer. Phone calls were expensive, so the plan was for me to only call home twice a ...

Loss of Friends-Too Young  It was April of my 8th grade year. It was friday april 20. I was at the ball park playing softball. I heard all kinds of sirens running somewhere north ...

Death  My best friend was only 19 when she died of leukemia. I still remember her expression when I went to the the doctors with her and the doctor told her that ...

R.I.P. Alyssa Emrich (17 yrs old from Austintown, OH)  I can't find words to say. But on February 15th, 2009 I lost my best friend. She's a junior in high school and I'm a senior. We spent all the weekend together ...

LIFE  Before, I'd been tested by time but never before had I felt such great pain. It all began in 2008... I was getting ready for college and I thought, I'd ...

Farewell, good bye, until we meet again...  A former co-worker passed away last night.
Though she moved west to be with family after the bank let her go, I consider her my friend. Even as I say ...