Shelby and I became best friends in the sixth grade. She was the one who Made me think, where has she been all my life. Turns out, not far at all. Every year, particularly every summer since I was a baby, My family and I would travel down to the family cottage to Oak island on Lake Nipissing. Funny that it took Shelby and I a couple years after we became friends to realize that she did too. So really almost every time I would visit camp, she was just on the other side of the island the whole time. Our family’s knew each other and our relatives partied with each other. Note, I found out first cause long story short, my mom somehow found out she was part of the Trottier family, and when I tried telling her, she thought I was crazy. But eventually I explained everything and we both thought it was craziest thing that we were that close to each other and most likely met once when we were little but never realized until later. Cheesy or not cheesy, but It was fate that we became best friends. Grew up on the same island, lived on the same road, went to the same schools and road the same bus. I was just so happy that we eventually found each other.