best friends forever
they'd started school the same day learned to read together competed in spelling tests and on the school's sports fields one always trying to better the other
they even lived close just a block apart their mothers had gone to the same school - knew one another slightly
all through the years even when walking different paths parallel to one another vowed to remain best friends forever
news came one day that one was unwell leukaemia they said needs a blood transfusion straight away, no time to wait
the other immediately offered comfort but more than that offered precious bone marrow no thought to the pain
the comrades lay side by side dressed in matching surgical gowns one giving the gift of life the other dying for it their friendship forever sealed by blood
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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart --Helen Keller
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