The narrator for this story is Buddy. Because he narrates the story in first person, he always uses "I" and "me," and not his actual name. His real name is not "Buddy." His cousin simply calls him that because her previous best friend, one who died in the 1880's, used to be named Buddy, and now she calls him that as well.
On page one of the story he tells us that he is seven years old in the memory, but he is narrating the story as a young adult. We do not know how old the narrator is when he is telling the story, but it appears he is still in military school based on the last passage of the story.
"That is why, walking across a school campus on this particular December morning, I keep searching the sky. As if I expected to see, rather like hearts, a lost pair of kites hurrying toward heaven" (Capote).
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