Today I Googled a friend I've fallen out of touch with. Her name is unique and easy to search for but after several tries, all I could find was one hit--a modest donation to a doghouse sponsor.
And that was so her. Is so her--a distilled and kind gesture that I'm sure is one of others that went publicly unrecorded. One kind and common act chronicled incidentally now stands as a perfect emblematic personal artifact.
Now along with missing her, I envy her. For all the talk of gesture streams and Twitter threads, my old friend is represented in a quiet corner of the web by one modest, caring, selfless, defining, casual act.
A small part of me hopes I don't find her. If I did, I'd probably send her a Pownce invite and fuck it all up.
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