From that moment on, we became childhood best friends, and now we are trying to rekindle that friendship in college. We loved to be in the spotlight, dancing ballet in "The Nutcracker" every year — making sure we knew all the parts. We were navigating the end of middle and beginning of high school without each other — a pivotal moment of development, and our lives didn't align. We are now getting a second chance at friendshipI graduated from high school during the start of the pandemic in 2020 when Rebecca was still a junior. Rebecca moved to California with her parents after high school.

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Persons: I've, Rebecca, It's Organizations: Service, Cottonwood Preschool, Emerson College, Emerson, Boylston, AMC, Boston Ballet Locations: Littleton , Colorado, California