2024 NATIONAL MEDAL
for Museum and Library Service Finalist

My Friend

Author: 
Franklin Cota
Wednesday, May 11, 2022

She was beautiful and kind the way you want your friends to be. We were inseparable. I followed her everywhere. I used to think that she was an angel sent to be my friend.
“Then where are my wings?” she would say with a laugh.
My family moved away and I lost contact with her.
Until my twenty-first birthday when I received seven long white feathers in the mail.