Dear Melissa,
For some reason, I've been thinking a lot about you these days. We were never close, but I know our souls were frighteningly similar. It's been almost two years, I still cannot quite grasp your absence. Perhaps that's why it's an absence.... there is nothing to grasp. I catch myself unknowingly talking to you sometimes, and thinking about you and imagining a conversation with you. It's strange, the way you slip into my thoughts.
I know you were tormented, as I often am. Perhaps not in the same way, but like I said: frighteningly similar souls. I miss you, this earth has a you-shaped space that nobody else can fill. Honestly, I cannot wait to see you in heaven, where all things are made new by Him, and there is no more weeping, or crying, or pain, or sorrow. In the meantime, I will always remember your beautiful smile, complete with two tiny dimples in your cheeks.