The best Best friend
Carly and Ryan,
Throughout our childhood, your dad and I were best friends. It was always Sackett and Cohen or Cohen and Sackett to all of our teachers in school, coaches in sports or counselors in camp. In Elementary school a lot of classes used to line us up by height and since we were always about the same height and usually 2nd and 3rd smallest, we were always lined up together. I can't say for sure what age we became great friends or describe the moment. I only know that we did and that maybe we were in 2nd or 3rd grade when we truly bonded. We used to always sit together in our classes and invariably, we used to get into a lot of trouble talking. A lot. haha I could and did talk about everything with your dad as we was always a very easy communicator. Never afraid to give his honest opinion. Never afraid to debate you if we disagreed. But even when we disagreed, which wasn't often, there was never any malice. He and I would never let anything get between our friendship. He was incredibly loyal and supportive and we always backed each other up. We were a team and everyone else knew that if you messed with one of us, you messed with both of us. I'll get into specific stories in later posts, but just know that your dad was the best best friend I could have ever hoped for growing up. A true friend.
Sincerely, Laurence