The Basket of Borrowed Sunshine

The child's best friend has been home ill for three whole days, and the classroom feels wrong, like a puzzle missing its corner piece. So the child packs a basket with things no chemist sells: the smell of rain kept in a jam jar, the funniest joke in the world written very small, a drawing of everything the friend missed, and one warm orange from the windowsill that has spent all week saving up sunshine. At the friend's front door the child suddenly worries the whole basket is silly, until each small thing works its own kind of medicine, and the friend's laugh comes back before their voice does. A visit, it turns out, can do more than any spoonful.

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