In the third grade, my friends and I pretended we had best friend pegasuses or pegasi (what is  the plural of Pegasus, anyway?). We flew all around the kingdom (otherwise known as the playground), through the mist — I'm not sure why were always in the mist except I was obsessed with mist. It seemed romantic and didn't you know that pegasi are always flying through the mist? I digress. The important thing wasn't the mist, it was the adventures we had together. When I first rea