Window seat... a heavy sigh... I adjust my seatbelt and feel the plane quickly picking up speed. My mind is blank, just an inexplicable, hollow void. In an instant, the plane lifts off the ground and you realize - this is it... everything. Everything is behind me. A small, incredibly dear to my heart, unique life has been lived. I watch the ground below, once so distant - and now so familiar - with fascination. Friends, emotions, the best memories are left there, outside the plane... Later, people will tell me, "Come on, it'll be even better! You'll definitely fly again! You'll go to the same places, meet your friends!" Maybe... although... I guess it can't be better or worse. It will just be "different." Faces and places don't stay the same. Moments in life are unique. Summer 2011 is forever in my heart.

I realize that America is saying goodbye to a different girl than the one it met once.

I lean back in my seat, close my eyes, and like frames of a color movie, faces, events, and days of the best time of my life start playing in my head...