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So this is my last official day of being a kid.

It's just so weird...this whole 18th birthday thing is coming as a shock to me. I haven't really had time to notice how fast things are going past me.

I'm like Peter Pan- I don't wanna grow up... It seems like just yesterday when I wore my goofy skirts with shorts underneath and stood on top of the big swing in my backyard and swung sideways while singing songs like "I'd Do Anything for You" from Oliver Twist with Zoe and we'd make berry and pinecone soup in our hideouts inside of the bushes and then we would play house and I'd always be the oldest and I would hate making up a pretend name because it seemed like all the good ones were always taken and then sometimes Zoe's Ya-ya would come over and we would jump rope until we messed up and she would count for us and then give us those Greek cookies and I remember the one time when her parents weren't home but the music was still playing and we were really freaked out and didn't know what to do or how Nick would chase us around the basement with his remote control cars and run over our toes and I remember when they first got their cat Tux and how her little teeth were so sharp and how we would play in the sprinklers during the summer and how we drew with crayon all over her treehouse until one day when her mom found out and she made us take big buckets of soapy water up there and we scrubbed and scrubbed for what seemed like it was all day and how we would use the windchimes underneath as a signal for different things and how one day we decided to "run away" to Kendall park by telling our parents we went to the other person's house but then our parents realized we were gone and started looking for us and found us climbing in the big bushes at the park and how that was the only time I've ever been grounded and how I watched everyone play in my backyard from the midget window but then my mom said I was "grounded outside" and I got to play with everyone again and when my other neighbors dug up the back of their yard to build that grotesque garage they have and there was this big flowering bush that I used to play in and then they cut it down and I cried and cried because it wasn't fair and how when they dug up the ground to build the foundation they gave us all of this extra dirt and how we would spray in with the hose and have this massive pit of mud and how I loved the feeling on it inbetween my toes and how butterflies would come into my backyard and I would make sugar water for them and how they would land on me and how I thought we had some kind of connection and how I would build forts in the basement with my little sisters and we would have slides and we would play school and I'd be the teacher and we would draw on that big dry-erase board......

Exactly 5 hours and 9 minutes until it's all over, but I'll never forget.