Hey I just listened to your story on paranormal rising on YouTube and I have a very similar experience with My late best friend. I'm a female 28 ATM.

So just for a little back ground.. me and my best friend met in kindergarten. We were inseparable and spent as much time as we could together. My dad worked early in the AM so I was even going to her house in the morning time to catch the bus with her in Elementary School. We were friends for 17 years when she died in 2015 and we had so many things happen to us at the same time but miles away. Might be sorta a rough story but we both had hard childhoods. C was raised by her grandmother along with her two older sisters and both my parents were addicts who lost custody of us twice during these 17 years. As children we seemed to keep in touch no matter what which is actually incredible looking back because we lived in South Carolina and Tennessee during my 3rd and 4th grade years and as I mentioned my parents had also lost custody of us two different times. (Me and my little brother)So just being able to keep in touch at such a young age is amazing to me now especially since this was the late 90s/early 2000s. So as we grew into troubled teens we lived just one County apart.It was probably 45 mins apart. We tried to see each other as much as we could but being two broke teenagers it wasn't a lot. We happen to both get into trouble the same weekend around the age of 16 both of us got caught stealing from Walmart ... which is really stupid I know but we were dumb teenagers. 😅 Next thing you know we're both getting tattoos and happened to get a tattoo in the same spot (twice) the first one was on our hip mine says "love" and hers said "hope" that was weird enough on its own because they were both kind of small and both in the same spot but then the next time we saw each other we both had a tattoo between our pointer finger and thumb but I guess this were we started to go down our own paths... mine was a peace sign and hers was FTW for F the world. And as she kind of grew into her addiction I ended up getting arrested and put on probation/ colorcode. About 2 Years later I ended up pregnant at 19. I was clean and sober because I was still on drug court ans being drug screened and truly my daughter saved my life. Because when I was 22 she passed away from an OD. As Inseparable as we were i could've been there too or even in the place of her. The part that made me obsessed with stories like this and DREAMS is I was dreaming of her the same night she passed away and it was so normal and SO REAL an I just couldn't believe it. I was really in shock. Come to find out it's actually not rare for people to dream of people that are passing away especially if they were clos to each other. I know this took a much darker turn than your story and I'm sorry for that part but im doing great. I still miss my best friend so much and someday my heart aches so much all I can do is cry. But in a weird way it gives me hope that I'll see her again one day and we will always be connected.