Bridesmaid Val

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Another of my oldest and bestest friends, Valerie hosted many a night of pre-adolescent sugar fueled silliness when she, I and Joanna began getting together to plan world domin- I mean, to watch movies and dance until dawn. She moved away when we were in Middle school but despite my scatterbrained difficulty in returning letters and phonecalls kept in touch and even showed up for Jo’s and my highschool graduations (she made it to both of them in one night!), came out for Joanna’s wedding last spring, and even came and saw me in France this year (oh yeah, and Paris and Chartres and les Galeries Lafayette and all sorts of other amazing sights) . She prizes friendship highly and is highly to be prized as a friend. She’s also very generous and devoted to making the world a better place, evidenced by her spending a year in DC working at a hospital for the homeless…where she met someone she ran into at Jo’s wedding last year. But you can ask her more about that J. She’s currently earning a masters in non-profit management at the University of North Texas.