to laura, who is celebrating her 19th birthday today! laura and i were inseparable when we were kids. you know when you’re little and you’re over at your best friend’s house and your mom comes to pick you up so you hide and you really believe that you might get to play a little longer if the adults can’t find you? like they’ll give up? i hid in laura’s guest room pretty frequently.
laura had a whole dresser drawer full of barbie dolls and clothes and accessories (but we rarely bothered with those plastic heels) and she had these little plastic glowbug toys that we would hold under her lamp and then take them into the big closet (where laura stored her purple and pink marabou dress up mules) and close the door to see them glow in the dark.
her brother rode his bike into me one time, but her dad is a devoted mets fan, which i can’t help but respect, so the whole tire-imprints-on-my-shin incident can be overlooked.
we both had american girl dolls and she never questioned the fact that i changed my samantha’s name to jessica.
i remember eating a lot of popcorn and drinking a lot of apple juice at laura’s house. every time i eat popcorn i compare it to what we ate together in elementary school.
and, her birthdate is 10.02 and my birthdate is 02.10!
love always, em locke
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