Reconnection
Contact was revived between two childhood bestfriends today. They lost touch for over twenty five years. Last they saw each other was on the day of their school farewell. Tears were shed. Goodbyes to the school were pronounced. One of those two people is my mom. She told me about her bestfriend first when I was in grade six. She would tell me the happy memories she had of her. She would narrate to me the incident of her popsicle. Multiple times. I was somehow never bored of hearing it. What happened was that her lemon flavoured popsicle slipped from her hand and her bestfriend who was walking with her, offered hers to my mom. Ofcourse she didn't take it but this gesture had meant a lot to her. She also told me about the breaks in between two classes when they would discuss which football player they were crushing on. My mom acknowledges that she has learnt a lot from her bestfriend and Miss Mukherjee was more like a sister to her than her bestfriend. She would scold my mom when sh
