My confidant, my sounding board, my best friend. Vivian is my calm in the storm. She is someone who will drop everything and listen so gracefully and with no judgment to all my crazy stories. Vivian is one amazing role-model. She is absolutely one of a kind friend and I am so blessed to have her as a best friend.

Mike has been with me through thick and thin. I wouldn’t be here without him and I treasure our friendship. I first met Mike before high school when he was going to jump the fence that separated my front yard from the city’s reservoir. Why Mike and his friends were trespassing is anyone’s guess, but long story short, he was going to fight my friend's boyfriend at that time. While we didn’t talk that night, and the only interaction we had was the death stare that Mike stowed upon me, we would come to meet in our freshman year of high school. Since then concerts, standup, Blackhawks games, and UFC PPV nights have brought us here and a new title of funcle.