Sara is fifteen years old today. She blows out the fifteen candles on her chocolate cake, but not before making a wish.. Sara wishes for a friend. She closes her eyes very tightly, wishes with all her might and blows. Fluttering in vain, the candles give up and go out. As Sara goes to sleep that night, she looks out to the night sky and prays out loudly, knowing that she will be heard. “Please God, send me a friend, a real close friend—I am so lonely, I feel so empty. Good night God.”
Sara awakens next morning feeling very happy. She stays in bed for a little while listening to the morning sounds- the happy melodic twittering of birds and a song from the radio in the kitchen where her mother, Maria, is. She goes down the stairs to the kitchen, “Hi Mom, you seem to be in a great mood today!”
“Maybe it is the music, Sara, I don’t know what it is but I feel different today- lighter somehow.”