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Here we are. We've made it. High school is officially over and now all we can do is look forward to the future. Granted I'm going to miss each and everyone of you, for reasons most-likely expressed in your year book, a chance for a new start seems all the more inviting.

We've known this day was coming. Since the beginning of Kindergarten, all those long 13 years ago, we've been counting down the days til we were given the chance to walk across the stage, accept our diploma and graciously and effortlessly move the tassel from one side of our head to the other. We've come so far.

Sure along the way, we've built friendships. Built ties that would last forever. We all met people who shaped us and helped us become who we are today. Sometimes it was a teacher (that grade 4 teacher who taught you something so profound you've never forgotten it), sometimes it was a friend (that friend who was there for you no matter what and would do anything for you) and sometimes it just a complete stranger who just wanted to do something kind. Whatever the person, the case or the situation, we each have been shaped, hopefully for the better, but definitely for good!

Now along the way there have been bumps and mess-ups. We've fallen down, and scratched our knees, and sometimes needed a little extra push to stand up again, but we still did. We got back up and pushed through the trials, usually with trusted friends to help push through the barricades.

Grad is a time to look back, on all the times we've had together, the good and the bad, but is also a time to look forward. Many of us are heading off to universities that span cities and continents, others are jumpstarting their careers, and others are going out to find themselves through some first-hand experiences. We have reached a milestone, but remember it's not a pit stop. We've got to keep going forward!

So i'm going to miss you all. Each and everyone of you! Each of you have played such an important role to me, that in a way I'm bummed its over. No more will I see you everyday. No more will my sarcastic comments and views haunt your every action. No more will I be there to laugh with you through the good times and cry with you through the bad. Granted I'm only a country away, it's still not going to be the same.

So, as we go on...we remember...all the good times we had together. Cause it has been good. It's been FANTASTIC! And we've had awesome lives so far. So i'm keen on the future. And I will never forget you!

This is my memento to 2010, Please don't forget me.

Signing Off,
DG