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I called a childhood friend today
who gave birth just 24 hours ago
and sent me an sms

this was the first time we talked
in five or six years
a ridiculously long time
for a best friend like she to me
and I to her

"Who is it on the phone please?"
A voice in her late twenties
Somehow I never lost the magic trick
of hearing the 12 years old in her
eternally familiar, recognizable and comforting
"Willow" I said
That's the name
I haven't used for a long time
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