The Company We Keep - KQED
Laurel Braitman met Harold the year she turned 13, when her father took her to a pet store and told her she could pick any fish she wanted. So she chose Harold — a brown, armored catfish who became her closest friend in junior high. Harold was her confidant, listening patiently as Braitman told him all about her unrequited crushes, how she ran for (and lost) the campaign for 8th grade student body president and how mad and scared she was about her father’s terminal cancer.
Harold eventually led Braitman into the Amazon and face-to-face with her grownup self.