unlikely friends

“I want you to see the Sea Eagle, Flan! This is your spirit animal!” Shre is Indian, the Asian kind, so I didn’t correct him. I know white people can’t appropriate that phrase.“Oh yeah? Why?”

All photos by Shreyansh Garg, except FLAN WAS HERE.

“Nobody can fuck with her. She’s fierce. She flies so high, so easily, and gracefully, and she’s most beautiful to watch when she’s flying against the wind.”

Shre’s first words to me, less than 48 hours earlier, were “Not all men!” It’s amazing he survived at all, let alone became a fast friend. He piped up during an unwanted conversation with a misogyni…