It was worth the travel

Picture this
Two children
Living on complete opposite sides of the world.
One residing on the Cape Verde Islands, and the other
In Massachusetts.




At the age of 4, the little girl living on the island of Santiago, is being scolded for burning a pot of rice, as she daydreams of playing outside.
About 4,000 miles away the 4 yr old living in Mattapoisette, is snuggled on her fathers lap, in a light blue recliner watching Mary Martin in her leading role in the Peter pan movie.
A year later, at now 5 yrs old, both girls would attend school.
One will be picked up at the top of her street by a yellow school bus, and the other will walk over a mile on dirt roads to her school.
One 5 yr old will play outside during the summer months, spending her days having water fights and playing with her cousins. While the other would walk miles to collect liters of clean drinking water to have for the day, since the water she had access to, was for washing her clothes on the wash board.
One child would sit on her stoop playing with her Polly pocket, while the other child would be cutting cans to make a toy car to share with other neighborhood children.
As the years would go by, the girl from Santiago would travel on to Germany, and then into Mass. The girl from Mattapoisette would travel a little ways up in to the Boston area.
As fragile times would have it, both girls would be in Hyannis Mass,
Meeting face to face.
Forging an unbreakable bond
Here's to the rest of our lives as best friends!