To-est my Soup!!!!!

I literally cannot stop thinking about yesterday! Talk about the most unreal and surreal day of my life! I will never ever forget holding your hand (the hand of my best friend) while I ripped open not one, not two, but THREE acceptance letters!!! Oh my god!!! I guess here comes the hard part. Where to go to University?? I know, there are way worse problems to have! I am so beyond glad I didn’t “get into” NYU!! First of all, it’s not nearly as good a school as people try to make it out to be, and I’ll be moving to New York anyway for my career, which is way better than goin’ there to attend some average college! I know you agree.

And I swear to god if we hadn’t gone for Chinese after (and if we hadn’t been through these crazy Senior year ups and downs), we would never have run into Kev Brandolini. My god, does that guy get hotter and hotter. No wonder everyone just calls him Brando. When we first saw him you pinched me ’cuz my jaw was literally in my hot and sour soup, Soup. Thanks for the pinch, by the way . . . wouldn’t be the greatest time for a third-degree burn on my FACE!

Stefanie Campbell, I will never forget the friggin’ look on your face when I asked Brando if he wanted to go to Prom with me. You almost blacked out! I was totally just kidding with him, but then he said yes, and I was like, “I’m sorry, what?” And you were like, “Wait, really?” Good thing we booked the mid-size limo, Stef, ’cuz Brando is so muscular and tall! Not that Diego isn’t, but . . .

Ya know, my fortune cookie was right: “Don’t look back or you might fall in the pothole in front of you.” And look back on what, even? Christopher cheatin’ on me with Kathy Connery? Him breaking up with me and taking back a chintzy claddagh ring? I don’t think so. If I were to look back it would only be to thank the past for getting me to the greatest time in my life.

Three colleges accepted me! I’m Maria, for christsakes! And now I am going to Senior Prom with Kev Branolini, who just happens to be, oh, I don’t know, the hottest guy this town has ever seen (except for Diego, duh!)!

We have the best limo ever! You and Diego, our dear friend Stacey and the sweet-as-can-be Matt Bloom, and me and Brando! I heard Chris is just goin’ stag with Tzoug and Dube. I don’t even know if they’re goin’ in a limo. But, not my business.

I can feel the end of high school, Stef. We are so close! And it’s just gonna be smooth sailin’ now. We have nothing to worry about except for having a great time. Oh my god, am I grateful you told me not to paper the town with those incriminating photos of Chris and Kathy. I could’ve destroyed a lot of lives in the wake of that, and for what? Nope. I stayed classy and above it because of you, BB MINKEY. And now “Karma (Chameleon)” is on my side!

Love you, Miss Northwestern,

Tara “Which College Will I Choose” Murphy