Kayla+Y's+OpEd+Article

= "The Loss of Friendships"  =

media type="file" key="kaylay-muckraker-2011.mp3" "Friends come and go. But the ones who stay forever are the ones who you can count on.”, I’ve been with this saying for so long that it came to reality not that long ago when it was finally proven to me.

As I was younger, I wasn’t the kind of person who had very much friends because I either didn’t try or the other kids didn’t like me. But ever since I was separated from the love of my life, I knew that now i was alone and I needed to become a little more social to make friends so that I had somebody to lean on, and count on. And now, I am 16 going on 17 in 5 months with so many friends.

From all the moving in my child hood, it has also caused some of those losses of close friendships I had built with others but that was mostly another reason why I tried not to become too close. But I have to give credit to the number one person who has stuck through thick and thin with me who I call my best friend since the 2nd grade. And I have made some best friends throughout the time of making those friends, but I lost most of them due to either drama or even just the period of done talking. But my number one girl knows me inside and out. She has never given up on me which I love the most about her.

The losses of those relationships I had, are done and behind me but I know I will always have my best friend, Lorena Orellana. So every friend I may have lost, I still have my, might as well called, sister.