Galaxy Pet

I remember as a kid my first crush was on Ponyta (the fire horse from Pokemon). I didn't even watch/play Pokemon nor was I obsessed with it. But it was a huge craze in the daycare I used to go to and almost every kid had a binder full of Pokemon cards. One time my friend came to school with her binder, and she let me flip through it. When I saw Ponyta, my heart just melted for him. No one thought it was weird (we were kids so we didn't care) and every day she was nice enough to just let me hold the Ponyta card around. I'd often times pretend Ponyta was next to me and I'd play with him (like an imaginary friend of sorts). Once day, my friend who owned the card told me her and her family were moving really far away and I was devastated (because she was leaving and she was my best friend). I also didn't get to say goodbye to the card I had grown attached to (I was 10 give me some slack) because she already had her binder with all the cards packed inside. At least, almost all of the cards. At the end of the day before she got checked-out, she looked at me and said "I know how much you love Ponyta, so I wanted you to keep him." She pulled out the Ponyta card and gave him to me! I was so happy!