 It's from a young woman who seems to have discovered that you're only young once. Here's what she writes. Dear Casey, growing up in a pine forest of the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia was the best time of my life. My family and I lived there for ten years, across the road from the best neighbors in the world. Bruce and I are the same age, and we spent every waking moment together throughout those ten years. Because of this, I was quite a little tomboy.