This is a sweet and beautiful story, @dianelson. Those early friendships stick with us over the years, and their impact is so long-lasting. Sometimes I search Facebook and LinkedIn for long-lost friends. And sometimes I find them!

Tip: Have you read our article in The Ink Well catalog of fiction writing tips titled Help for the Grammatically Challenged? It provides important tips on how to use Google Docs to draft your stories. It will point out errors that need to be fixed, and you can fix them by clicking on them. It's a great resource! For example, here's a screenshot of some of your text when pasted into Google docs. You can see where the tool will provide suggested edits, like changing "thesame" to "the same."

Good luck and keep writing!