Dear Bora,

I feel like I need to ensure that our readers do not get a one-sided view of our childhood relationship. Here are a few of the things I blame you for:

• that time when I was 14 and you told Ben A. that I had a crush on him. It was all the more embarrassing because it was true.
• my low intellectual self-esteem. You always one-uped me academically (can we say "full scholarship" twice?)
• the constant feeling I have that someone is watching me- because you usually were.
• and also for that time you told Mom I lost my tooth even though you knew I was going to keep it a secret so that I could finally know the truth about the Tooth Fairy. Now I'll never know...

Love (in spite of it all),

Kate