Also referred to: Echoe Matthews. She was the red-headed, fragrant girl who sat with her two best friends on their mother’s porch in the small southern town of Edirne, Colorado. Echoe Matthews, a young red-haired girl with a red-headed hair, was her favorite little girl. They were best friends growing up and shared a lot of their time together, especially when they could go hiking or fishing.
Echoe Matthews was seven years of age when her parents decided that it would be a good idea to send her to school. So she enrolled in the elementary school in her town, but she still continued to hang around with her friends from the ages of seven to thirteen. And when she got to thirteen years old, her parents divorced. Sarah and her best friend decided to stay friends shortly after. They went on their first ever date, which was a success. They were soon inseparable.
Since then Sarah and Echoe are best friends. They are close in age, and their parents never thought they would get so close in such a strange way, but when they announced they were going on a “date night”, their parents were both surprised and thrilled. Echoe and Sarah cooked a delicious meal of their favorite foods for the couple.
One day, as the two girls walked in the garden, they discovered a stuffed monkey hanging on a fence post. It took them a few minutes to get down to the stump and pull it down. They laughed at themselves as they saw the funny face on the monkey. It was exactly what they remembered as children, cartoons, fairies and princesses, all the things they loved. It was the kind of thing they always talked about.
It was that simple. A few years later, on a bright spring day, they were sitting in the backyard, eating lunch when suddenly the phone rang. Sarah and Echoe heard the familiar ring of the telephone bell. It was their mother. They looked at each other and noticed a tear in their eyes.
Their mother, bless her heart, handed them each a small envelope. Inside the envelope, was a letter that started like any other letter – beginning with a capital A. It said, “Dear Sarah ,…we believe you two might be best friends.” On the inside of the letter was also written, “To Our Little Girl: Our daughter has become our friend, and we would like to inform her that we love her very much, and will always support her interests and opinions, and her dreams, whatever they are. Thank you in advance for your kindness, and prayers, in raising our daughter.”