nicola leaves today to go home to new zealand for good. she had her blowout leaving do last night.

i met nick when i first started working at the council. we started taking cigarette breaks together, hanging out at the common during our lunch hours. she wanted to travel, i wanted to travel, and even though we didn’t know each other well, at some point we decided to take a trip to brussels and amsterdam. the trip was fabulously fun – i discovered nick is happy as a clam, as long as she’s kept well-fed and empty bladdered; nick discovered i get paranoid on too many mushrooms. from that auspicious start, the bonds of friendship were formed.

over the course of the next year, we would help each other over broken hearts, help each other adjust to life in london, party and dance and have adventures (both domestic and international), find (or both be forcibly introduced to) new loves, cope with dramas big and small – knowing all the while that we were eventually destined to go our separate ways.

although i don’t say goodbyes, i am grateful for the time we had here, and know that we will we will have fun together again, some other place, some other time. Perhaps we will meet up with our husbands and our babies, and compare recipes and parenting tips. Or maybe we will be puzzling over maps, pretending we are *not* lost, in some country we don’t know anything about, laughing because we can’t speak the language.

til then…

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