I’ve been lucky enough to have my childhood best friend in my life for a long time. We met in Providence, Rhode Island when we were three years old. We both moved away when we got a little older. Her mom, just moved back here. We came to visit her in her new home.
Returning to the places you spent your childhood evokes so many different feelings. Things that you can’t quite remember start coming back to you, filling in all the fuzzy spots of a memory. Everything looks bigger, and very different than what I remember yet completely the same all at once.
I’ve been thinking a lot about little Inayah, and how she still lives on with me here and now. I try to take care of her the best I can.
I am grateful to be able to look back at the past with the people I know now and the ones who lived it with me. It’s how I am able to carry those precious, foundational memories on into the present day.
No matter how much changes, I know I can always come back, and add onto the old memories with new ones.
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