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" AGE 6 \u2013 9 Molly is my best friend ever, and we&amp;#039;ll be best friends until we get old and die. I could sit with Molly in her rec room and draw crayon pictures of hot teenage girls with awesome outfits forever, or at least until my mom comes and picks me up. Molly! We should get best friend necklaces!  AGE 10 Why is the new girl drawing with Molly in my chair? Doesn&amp;#039;t she know it&amp;#039;s my chair? What&amp;#039;s her name, anyway? &amp;quot;Jessica?&amp;quot; Jessica, get out of my spot. Look at Molly&amp;#039;s necklace and look at my necklace. It&amp;#039;s a heart split in half. That means WE are best friends, and YOU are just the new girl in weird bellbottom jeans who moved from some weird other city and who is now sitting in my chair. Capische? AGE 11-12 Molly and Jessica are my best friends ever and we&amp;#039;ll be best friends until we get old and die! I could go over to Jessica&amp;#039;s house with Molly and watch TRL in her bedroom and try on her big sister&amp;#039;s Ralph by Ralph Lauren perfume forever! I could accidentally find Jessica&amp;#039;s mom&amp;#039;s diaphragm in the bathroom cabinet and wonder if it was a spaceship for mice, forever! Then after we watched The Sixth Sense Jessica told us what giving head is, which is when you make out with a guy, and they call it that because his lips are on his head. Let&amp;#039;s smoosh all our names into one really awesome name for a girl! MollEssicAnna! THAT IS SUCH A COOL NAME! AGE 13 I can&amp;#039;t BELIEVE Molly and Jessica went to the mall without me. They know I wanted to go to that Hollister two-for-one flip-flops sale. I hope it was so dark in there that they walked right into a palm frond and it poked them in the eyes. Now I have to go with Natalie because they already went and I don&amp;#039;t even like Natalie. Okay, Mom, can you drop me off at the food court and in seven hours come back and pick me up from the food court?  AGE 14 Nobody understands me except Molly and (sometimes) Jessica. It helps that we talk on AIM from the second we go home from school to the second we go to bed, and have sleepovers at Jessica&amp;#039;s house every Friday. Last week we watched The Craft and then at midnight we snuck onto Jessica&amp;#039;s neighbor&amp;#039;s Astro Turf to play Light As A Feather, Stiff As A Board. But her neighbors woke up and caught us. Wicca is the best. My witch name is Moonflower Sheetrock. AGE 15 - 16 Today me, Molly and Jessica are sitting in the basement listening to some guy friends play acoustic guitar! Tomorrow me, Molly and Jessica have plans to sit in the basement and watch some of our guy friends play Grand Theft Auto: Vice City! One of them is Jessica&amp;#039;s boyfriend! The other ones are mostly just his loser friends who have never read a book! Hanging out and passively observing boys do things is the funnest! AGE 17 Everything is awkward. I hate Molly&amp;#039;s boyfriend. She shouldn&amp;#039;t go to the prom with him. And she definitely shouldn&amp;#039;t lose her virginity to him. But when she does, I&amp;#039;ll be there, grossed out but ready to provide support.  AGE 18 OMG I am going to miss you guys sooooo much at college, I&amp;#039;m gonna text you every second of every day. OMG, Natalie, I&amp;#039;m gonna miss you soooooo much! We had so many good times at the mall! Vitamin C is so right in that song she sings about this. I should add her to my favorite writers list on Facebook! There, now it&amp;#039;s Vitamin C and Voltaire. AGE 19 - 20 I feel torn between my old and new friends. I guess that&amp;#039;s why that lame &amp;quot;one is silver and the other&amp;#039;s gold&amp;quot; song exists. Whatev, I&amp;#039;m gonna go make fast and crazy-intimate friends of convenience during Welcome Week and only one of them will stick! Laura, College BFF! AGE 21 - 22 Zomg it was sooooo nice to see Molly and Jessica over winter break! We all got drunk at that house party and went to the bathroom together to mingle our pee, because obviously that&amp;#039;s what best friends do. Molly invited me to go visit her at school, but I bet I wouldn&amp;#039;t have anything in common with her friends. I wish Laura could have mingled her pee with us. She could be like the fourth. All friend groups need a fourth, right? Nah, Jessica wouldn&amp;#039;t like her. AGE 23 \u2013 25 Molly gets out of work late, and Jessica has to work on weekends, and I am studying for the GREs, so even arranging a one-hour brunch is almost impossible. This whole adult life thing is really killing our friend buzz. But when we do get together, we mostly go into stores in order to touch beautiful things we can&amp;#039;t afford.  AGE 26 \u2013 27 Everything is awkward. I hate Molly&amp;#039;s boyfriend. She shouldn&amp;#039;t move in with him. Actually, it&amp;#039;s not my place to judge. And Jessica thinks my boyfriend&amp;#039;s a jerk, but really he&amp;#039;s just shy! And Jessica&amp;#039;s dating her 40-year-old former professor who we all think is disgusting.   But when it all blows over, we&amp;#039;ll be there, grossed out, but ready to provide support. And also a gross futon in the living room, if one of us needs to crash. AGE 28 - 30 Molly&amp;#039;s happy with her life, Jessica&amp;#039;s happy with hers, and I&amp;#039;m happy with mine \u2014 and all three are very, very different \u2014 and right now we&amp;#039;re having Sunday brunch and laughing at the fact that we once thought blowjobs were kissing. Follow Anna on Twitter. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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