Romantic Two-Girl Friendship/Sandbox

Sandbox for TRS thread.

Romantic Two-Girl Friendship: the time before girls start focusing so much on boys, when friendship is really emphasized (usually junior high/middle school). Since friendship takes precedence over romance, it tends to be that they are emphasized really strongly and powerfully, and almost appear to be romance. There is a strong cultural connection to it in Japan, where it almost is like romance, just a more "virginal" outlook on it. They are not actually in love or in a relationship, nor will they ever be, it's just emphasized in such a way that if the other were a boy, you'd assume this to be the case.

Literature
"Ozma laughed at the wistful expression in the girl's eyes, and then she drew Dorothy to her and kissed her.
 * Ozma and Dorothy have this in L. Frank Baum's Oz books. Completely innocent, it included good morning kisses. Betsy later gets included. Baum implied this relationship would last indefinitely because nobody in Oz ages if they don't want to. This is especially amusing when you realize that Ozma spent the first 10 years of her life as a boy.
 * This passage from Tik-Tok of Oz, Betsy's introductory adventure, says it all. Context is the discussion of whether or not the orphaned Betsy should be invited to live in Oz. Dorothy's opinion was very positive.

"Am I not your friend and playmate?" she asked.

Dorothy flushed.

"You know how dearly I love you, Ozma!" she cried. "But you're so busy ruling all this Land of Oz that we can't always be together.""


 * In spinoffs, there's also a romantic two-girl friendship, even though the story is changed for good.
 * Anne of Green Gables has a very close, affectionate relationship with her friend Diana. Unsurprisingly, these Canadian novels are also extremely popular in Japan, spawning two anime to this day (a classic from the 70's and a recent 2009 prequel) and are heavily referenced in other Japanese media.
 * Angela Brazil, writing in an earlier and more conservative age, openly described her schoolgirl characters kissing.
 * The more conservative the age, the more romantically you can describe the friendship, since it wouldn't occur to anyone to read it differently.

Live Action TV

 * The BBC version of the Merlin legend, where the peasant Gwen acts as maid, best friend and general flower-bringer to her mistress Morgana.