On Friendship Book

	Acknowledgments	xiii
	Introduction	xxi
1.	Being Yourself!
	Being Yourself!	3
	Lost in a Sea of Faces	7
	What You Do Today	12
	A Short Kind of Death	15
	Black Fans	18
	Myself	21
	You Want to Be Different	26
	Ways to Be Yourself and Love Yourself	29
2.	Being Your Own Best Friend
	Being Your Own Best Friend	33
	Picking Up the Pieces	36
	I Can Walk on Water	40
	Love Bloomed for Me	44
	Enjoying Being Me	47
	Some Thoughts on "Being Your Own Best Friend"	51
3.	What Is Friendship?
	What Is Friendship?	54
	Friendship Lives On	56
	A Friend Is...	61
	Friendship	65
	Sporadic Hugging	67
	A Real Friend	70
	Closing Open Doors	71
	Audition	78
4.	Challenges in Friendship
	Challenges in Friendship	82
	So Many Times Before	85
	The Road Is Never Too Long	92
	Through It All	95
	Suddenly, I Turned Around and My Best Friend Was There	99
	The Rocky Road of Friendship	102
	Angels	106
5.	Making Friends
	Making Friends	114
	A Brother's Love	116
	Bethany's Friendship	121
	Friendship Is a Bond	125
	Growing Pains	128
	Forever Friends	134
6.	Cliques, Groups and Popularity
	Cliques, Groups and Popularity	136
	Popular	139
	Staring at Shadows	142
	Put on the Shoes	145
	You Don't Know Me	148
	But When Nighttime Falls	151
	The Greatest Gift	153
	Torrie	163
	All a Matter of Perspective	167
7.	Friends and Lovers
	Friends and Lovers	176
	Friends for Life	179
	The Smile	182
	The Arms of a Friend	185
	Christy	188
	To Hide in Fear	194
	Before	198
	Once upon a Sometime	200
	When Love Enters the Picture	202
	No Time	207
	Watch Out for the Quiet Ones	209
8.	Jealousy, Hurt and Betrayal
	Jealousy, Hurt and Betrayal	216
	There All Along	220
	Holding On to the Gold	227
	Foolish Girl	231
	You Win	233
	Two of a Kind	235
	Memories of the Past	241
	King of the Mountain	245
	Rudolf	248
	Popsicles and Sticky Fingers	252
9.	Friends in Trouble
	Friends in Trouble	258
	A Long Overdue Letter	260
	My Beautiful Loss	264
	No Truer Gift	268
	Please, Don't Leave Me Now	270
	The Ribbon	274
	Thank You, My Friend	277
	My Secret	278
	I Can't Feel Elley Anymore	284
	One Final Lesson	287
	These Days	293
10.	Growing Apart
	Growing Apart	300
	Learning How to Be a True Friend	302
	Losing Lola	308
	Once upon a Long Time Ago	313
	Lollipop Days	316
	Gold Friend	319
	Goofy Pictures Will Never Fade	321
	Losing Friends	325
	A Smile So Genuine	329
	Evolution of a Friendship	332
	Even Though I Lost a Friend	337
11.	The Best of Friendship
	The Best of Friendship	340
	Letter to a Friend	342
	Dear Lauren	343
	Best Friend	347
	We Chose to Be Friends	350
	Always	354
	To My Best Friends	356
	Perfect Memories	358
	Resources for Friends in Trouble	361
	Who Is Kimberly Kirberger?	365
	Who Is Colin Mortensen?	367
	Contributors	369
	Permissions (continued)	379