Relationships⎟Nonfiction
A Re-ignited Friendship that Beat the Odds of Time and the Infant Stage of the Internet
Sometimes reaching out to an old friend is met with a closed door and sometimes it’s an embrace — here’s one story of an embrace
First, it was Nicole. We were best buddies in the first and second grades. We searched for tadpoles after it rained and even bathed and powdered our stick frogs as if they were our babies.
We’ll never be able to ask 5-year-old Natalie and Nicole how was this even a thing.
Nicole and I fought for the old red nail polish we found in a dumpster from the neighbor who threw out all her makeup in second grade. My mom made me give it to her. Can you tell — how that still stings?
But my favorite memory is when she and I both liked Justin and convinced me to write him a love letter: “Ask him if he likes you and have him check the box yes or no?”
Sadly, she left Venezuela and I moved to another state — months later.
I have always held Nicole close to my heart.
I was going into third grade in our new school, ELM. Dad took us out for dinner on a Saturday prior to the first day of…
