RC and I have been friends our whole lives. We were actually friends before we were even born—our mothers met in the waiting room at the doctor’s office when they were pregnant with us. We grew up a few streets apart. We went to school together.
We played football together. We started a terrible garage band together, much to the dismay of our parents and anyone else in a three-block radius. RC was always more like a sibling to me than a friend, and when they married my sister, that made it official. I don’t know what my life will look like without them in it. I’ve never had to live in a world without them.
But we have sons who are the same age, and they are cousins and best friends all in one. Getting to watch them grow up together will help keep RC alive in all of our hearts.