At school, it’s more complicated. Taming a new friend is a balancing act and fine diplomacy, which is built up slowly, over weeks or even months. […]
But in the summer, on vacation, it’s different. On campgrounds, in parks, on beaches, all you have to do is play ball, throw the ball or the Frisbee, and the deal is sealed: we’re not just new friends, we’re the best buds. It’s a bit like that, the magic of summer. […]
And when you do an activity that otherwise would turn out to be boring, well with new friends, you can do it and do it again and you don’t want it to end: you laugh, you giggle, you make jokes. There is even a real benevolence that sets in and I’m not talking about the kind that is overused by adults. We help each other. We include each other. We get up. And we start again. […]
We only taste the best with solar friends. A kind of bubble, a sweet and sticky bubblegum bubble. Summer friends, maybe that’s it after all. These are the first chews of bubblegum when it is still very soft and bursting with flavor. On vacation, we don’t have time to let it become rigid and bland (there will be school friends for that). We only keep the best; the best and those rare photos with faces full of grimaces, faces whose names we will soon forget, but whose memories will stick for a long time to come.
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