"Get Yourself Some Girlfriends..."

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Young and newly married, I relaxed under a pecan tree on a hot Texas summerday,
drinking iced tea and getting to know my new sister-in-law, Estelle.
Not much older than I, but already the mother of three, Estelle seemed  to me experienced and wise.

"Get yourself some girlfriends" she advised, clinking the ice cubes in her glass.
"You are going to need girlfriends.
Go places with them; do things with them."

What a funny piece of advice, I thought.
Hadn't I just gotten married?
Hadn't I just joined the couple-world?
I was a married woman, for goodness sake,
not a young girl who needed girlfriends.

But I listened to this new sister-in-law.

I got myself some girlfriends.

As the years tumbled by, one after another, gradually I came to understand
that Estelle knew what she was talking about.
I remembered that she had said the word "
"girlfriends" with emphasis.

As I went along, I discovered the subtle difference between friends and girlfriends.

You go to work with friends,
go to dinner with friends,
go to church with friends,
belong to clubs with friends.
You send friends greeting cards.
You need friends in your life;

All girlfriends were once only friends.

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But a Girlfriend is different.

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Here is what I know about Girlfriends:

Girlfriends don't compete.
Girlfriends bring casseroles and scrub your bathroom when you are sick.
Girlfriends keep your children, and keep your secrets.
Girlfriends give advice when you ask for it.

Sometimes you take it, sometimes you don't.
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Girlfriends don't always tell you that you're right, but they're always honest.
Girlfriends still love you, even when they don't agree with your choices.
Girlfriends might send you a birthday card......
but they might not.

It does not matter in the least.

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Girlfriends laugh with you and you don't need canned jokes to start the laughter.
Girlfriends don't talk about you behind your back.

Girlfriends pull you out of jams.
Girlfriends don't keep a calendar that lets them know who hosted the other last.

And girlfriends are there for you, in an instant and truly, when the hard times come.

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Like :

Girlfriends listen when you lose a job or a husband.
Girlfriends listen when your children
break your heart.
Girlfriends listen when your parents'
mind and body fail.

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Once we were young, with no idea of the incredible joys
or the incredible sorrows that lay ahead.

Girlfriend.........You Bless my Life.

~Author Unknown

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You might want to send this to a girlfriend today.....Barbara

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