(This is a dream about a person I hadn’t thought about in years, a girl who stayed in my school for a few months in fifth grade: her family ran a circus and she had to move around the country a lot. She had blond hair and the biggest blue eyes. We made fast friends and then she left town and I never saw her again.)

I dream that the girl from the circus is back in town, she’s an adult now but her eyes are still the same. Her family is famous, they were in a movie too. We have them over for dinner and I feel totally inadequate. I show her a picture of us at my 11th birthday, she smiles fondly. I feel very weird, like I don’t even deserve to be in her presence.