Skyler's Notes: Sail-Away Party

After my graduation ceremony, with our caps lost on the stadium ground and our photos taken with family and student groups, myself and two friends (S and Q) got dinner together. Still swaddled in our black gowns, we chatted to Q’s parents about college and our lives beyond it. I remember her mom asking us our favorite memories, a simple question that on any other day may have seemed trite, but in that moment was a perfect outlet to laugh and cry over what we had just lost. I knew, sitting there, that from now on these people’s place in my life might glow or fade, but that I would give up a kidney for either of them without a second thought -- although hopefully not both.