how do I describe or explain

the relationship I've developed with my Clarion West classmates? There is a love I have for them all that I have never experienced before. There is a respect and admiration I've never experienced before.

Those six weeks in Seattle may end up being six of the most important weeks of my life purely because of the relationships I forged there.

This is something I never expected to happen.

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I should have mentioned this before, but both Rajan Khanna and Carlton Mellick III (two classmates) were listed as Honorable Mentions in the most recent edition of The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror. Perhaps you can understand how insanely proud I am of both of them.

I promise, as the years go on, you will be seeing more and more of my classmate's names in such esteemed anthologies.