I have different classes of what I consider best friends, I guess. Real-life best friends and online best friends are different to me because our relationships are different.

My best best friend I've known for about twelve years or so. We met in junior high, and I had recently changed boundaries for the school district restrictions and didn't really have many friends, although I knew a lot of the people because I grew up in the area. It was just a matter of having been away for several crucial years in school and not being a part of the neighborhood growing up. I was friends with a particular girl, though, who one day this pack of kids dressed in black approached and started gab gab gabbing away. They all grew up in the same neighborhood, I guess, and because she was friends with them, I integrated in the group and thus met my best friend, Elizabeth. I bounced around to a lot of different groups in school, but the goth group (which later became the stoner group) was what I would consider my "home base". We hung out in a specific wing of the school we dubbed The Batcave because we wanted to pretend we were batcavers from the eighties. High school was awesome. Later in life after high school, we both moved to Arizona at separate times and spent a few years there together. She lived there when she was very young and it was pure coincidence that we both moved to the same area. She's since moved back to Utah and I've gone to visit her there and was just recently her maid of honor in her wedding. I love her to death and would do anything for her.

Then there are my online best friends who I feel know me the best and who I am through years of online interactions during difficult times in my life and through my livejournal, which is and has been a constant source of output from the crazy in my head. Daniel, who I have been close with the longest and who I sometimes want to kill but I know he will always give me good advice and be honest with me and make time for me if I need him. Pontus, who probably knows me and my story better than anyone and despite our history and recent breakup, I am thankful that we still remain close. There are a couple of other people who know who they are and I hope they know how important they are to me.

My sister and I are very also very close, but I don't know if "family best friends" count.

I can't name just one! All of these people are important to me in different ways.