![]() I guess technically they were platonic for a while. ![]() ![]() Real best friends can generally go more than a couple hours without mentioning each other’s name, but Korie found a way to fit Stephen’s name into every other sentence. ![]() My sophomore year of high school, I had a short-lived friendship with this girl named Korie Hamilton.Ī little too much purple eyeliner, a few too many likes sprinkled throughout her constant chatter, but we had every class together our first semester, so we kind of became friends by default.Īnyway, Korie was forever yammering on and on about how her best friend on the entire planet was Stephen Daniels, a boy she’d known for all of four weeks before promoting him to BFF status.Īpparently it was, like, ohmigod, like, the best thing ever to have a guy she could talk to without complicating things with romantic entanglements. ![]()
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