Best friends...

It's the first day of kindergarten. There are a ton of other people in the classroom. For some reason, I wander over to the plastic animals where one other girl is. We start playing together and at circle time we sit next to each other. She's tall and I'm short. That's just how it's always been since the day we met. We both have dirty blondish hair. She's had braces twice, and lucky me(I haven't). Another thing to contrast us, she has two brothers and I'm an only child. She was born in Maryland, and I was born in ordinary Olympia. She and I both used to do Irish dance, although she kept with dance and I with soccer. We seemed to form a special bond that we still have today. Every Wednesday, every Friday, and any other day that would do we would spend time together.

I never really thought about her as a pet/animal person until she and her two brothers took their two gerbils taking turns all the way cross country to Vermont to their new home on their laps in the car (In a cage just in case you were wondering). They had, and have a cat who is about 19 years old and have a 3 year old black lab. She is definitely not an egoist since she always puts others before her making her a true altruist. After she moved, we've tried to see her every year. But you know how that goes. She's still super tall. We're long distance buddies. That still hasn't changed.