Best Friends Come and Go. And That’s Okay.

This story was originally written for Stranger Stories, RI’s ‘flight’ theme. Then the pandemic happened.

Photo by Nikola Johnny Mirkovic on Unsplash

I felt some apprehension as we lifted off in the two-seater. But, as I have obnoxiously told others wary of flight, it is more statistically probable to die in a car crash than hurtle into oblivion on a plane. So up we went.