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the little girl wrote a note, "please, I want a little girl friend who will catch frogs with me and share my pean't but'er an' jelly san'wich with me at the pond, here is my address,
AND I hope you're out there somewhere, signed, girlfriend..."
she rolled it up and stuffed it down the neck of a lavender balloon, blew it up, knotted it, and tied a string to its navel, Away...Away it flew...
Who knew, 1700 miles away, the balloon touched down on the mossy bank of a pond, wedging itself between a Mason canning jar of tadpoles and minnows and a little girl blond,
Away...Away it flew, little girl blond a feisty tomboy aimed her slingshot with a rock...Pop...Pop! it dropped,
Many years later they are still together catching frogs and tadpoles, eating pean't but'er an' jelly san'wiches, and blowing hot air from champagne helium...Going Down... Going Down...Hope floats...
Copyright 2006 Sage Sweetwater, firebrand lesbian novelist
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