i'm smiling because...
so my friend hideko had to go back to okinawa after visiting us for 7 months. and to make the story even sadder, a few days before she boarded the plane, she lost her digital camera containing all her memories of happy days in san diego.
this made me sad.
i bought her a disposable camera so she could at least snap a pic or two in her last hours in america, but it wasn't the same.
i wished and wished (even on trash, tony) that her camera would turn up. i even put an ad in the paper offering a reward. i started to give up hope.
last night, as i was walking out of the gym, someone pressed into my hand a cold silver object...
...the camera had been found. and it is now on its way across the ocean, chasing its owner with no letter or explanation, only a picture of my face and a sign that says "buritto says, 'hi hideko! we miss you!'"