For 13 years, Madison Moore didn't go through school alone.
It all began in an asylum class in Oklahoma, when Madison, a child with Down syndrome, was inserted into a class together with other peers.
It was there that he met Pryce Jackson and Kyran English.
They were just children, but they spontaneously decided to stand by them.
With time, that choice became a habit and then something much deeper.
They walked with her in the crowded corridors, sat together during lunch and, on school trips, held her hand.
It wasn't a job for them.
It was friendship.
And that relationship didn't work in one direction.
When, in the third grade, Kyran cried for a bad vote, it was Madison who consoled him first.
She didn't see them as boys in charge of helping her.
He just saw them as his friends.
And they saw her the same way.
The years passed, but the bond remained.
In 2021 the three arrived together with the diploma.
Madison's father published a photograph that portrayed them with toga and touch, now boys, after sharing practically all their school life.
The image toured the web.
Perhaps because it showed something that adults often try to teach children, while in this case they had been children to understand it first.
Inclusion is not only to put different people in the same room.
It's so nobody feels out of place.
Pryce, Kyran and Madison did not build their friendship with great statements.
They built it day by day, between corridors, canteens, trips, bad grades and years of school.
And thirteen years later, they were still there.
Together, even in the last photograph.