Part 2 ;)

So if I stopped to name all my friends that I love dearly I might miss one! But I will try:
Richie, my first friend who listened to anything, and tried his best to get me to talk to him about what was going on with me, which was really hard in my teenage years :) He also introduced me to Gary, how can I thank him for that?!
Chastity, Jennifer, Corey, Sara, Melissa, Stephanie Shockley, Tora, Sarah Boyd, Jennifer Baker, Heather, Angela-Friends from the old days, some family but all at one time those special friends that you never forget and can always take up with right where you left off, some to this day are still as close as they were then.
 Friends In Ohio:
Tammy Baker, Amanda Alexander, Holly B, Bev, Stephanie J, Bethany, Kim T.

And friends I never thought I would have, I remember telling Gary nobody likes me in Connersville, I will be so lonely and not have one friend! I honestly thought that was how my life would be here. And to my amazment I have once again underestimated not only God but people as well.
Lucy- the last person I thought would like me and the first to become a friend, the more I know her the more I realize how I never knew her!
Kristie, Joyce, Brenda, Connie, Sis Cain, Crystal, Lisa, Angie the Mays, Jerry and Diane,I better stop.....I just can't name all the people who have been a friend to me or to my family at 10th St., they have tried to make us feel welcome and loved and needed and I appreciate every way. I would have to have a church directory to get them all down.....
I am also thankful for the friendship of Gary's sister, Lori, she has been a real friend to me, she has been more like a sister.....I could say more but she knows how much I love her and respect her, and that is all that matters.
My mother-in-law, for taking us in when we had no place to go, for letting us invade her tiny 2 br house, and her privacy, for everything she did to help us through such a low time in our life.

So as you can see most of my Greatest Gifts have nothing to do with the unwrapping of gifts, they have more to do with the people I have been blessed with in my lifetime.