A Night to Remember

To the seniors,

August 17
Mel Paradise wrote:

Ok I know most of you will be home pretty much every weekend...but just to make things clear. I am trying to make sure we get EVERY ONE is home for Senior Night. It is 10/26/07 it starts at 7:30 but if I remember correctly pre game is like at 7 that night...so i think us college students should meet somewhere, have dinner, then go to the game...not too early b/c I think it would be sweet to see their faces when they come walking up the stands that we would be sitting in their seats! :-)

And that's how it began. Two months and almost three-hundred replies to seven separate Facebook threads later, the night that we had all been waiting for was finally here. The plot had become so elaborate, a multi-faceted plan of epic (that's right, epic) proportions, I am still amazed that it stayed as much of a secret as it did.
It's hard to wrap my head around that fact that it's over. Seeing something that we've been planning for so long, that I've spent so many sleepless nights worrying about, play out in front of my eyes was an amazing thing but incredibly bittersweet. It had come to mean more than just planning a 'surprise party'. For me, this night symbolized something much more, something I still have a hard time putting into words. Friendships like the ones we have must be rare. No one seems to understand why I will gladly set aside a Friday night to go back to my high school to watch the marching band and as hard as I try to rationalize it for people the thing it boils down to is this: you mean the the world to me. I wouldn't have missed this night for anything and I wouldn't trade it for anything else. All that I want is for you to be happy and seeing your faces tonight made up for every lost hour of sleep, every minute of planning and for the almost-unbearable anticipation. I hope you enjoyed as much as I did. Tonight I felt that old, familiar feeling, one that I haven't felt in nearly two months. Tonight I felt whole again and I want that thank you all for that.
Congratulations, again, on a fantastic senior show, on four years that you will never forget, and on making it this far, and thank you, again, for all that you've given me.

Yours always,
Jordan