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When Ino met Sakura, she saw a little girl who was told she wasn't really a girl.
But that was okay. Because as long as Sakura said that she was, she was.
The other girls in their class said she wasn't, her forehead was too big for a girl, she didn't dress like a girl, her hair was too short for a girl- but they were wrong.
Ino knew that there weren't really guidelines for how to be a girl. She told Sakura to be proud of her forehead. It didn't make her different, it made her unique. Sakura’s hair grew longer and Ino showed her how to take care of it. She grew taller and Ino gave her the dresses she had outgrown. Ino put flowers in Sakura’s hair and held her hand when they walked to school.
Sakura told her a secret. She said she liked Sasuke.
Ino wanted to tell her a secret, too.
She liked Sakura.
