The friends that remove my masks – how I love them! Her open sincerity demands that I return the same. My pretensions simply fall in her presence. There’s no hiding of emotions. As scary as it can be to stand naked before someone, before myself, I need it. To learn, to grow, to transform, to morph, I must understand who I am today. Exhausting, but necessary. You need not do much, but just be you to allow me to be me.