AUTHOR'S NOTE:
This is one of those rare serious moments in this book, so if you don't want to see it, then go ahead and skip it. Otherwise, read on.
I just got done watching a movie called "Stand By Me", where these four boys hear about another boy their age (12) who had gotten hit by a train and died. The police had yet to find the body, so they figured if they found it, they'd become heros and get famous, so they set off to the place that he was rumored to have been hit. The gang that they'd heard it from had already found the body once and had the same idea as the boys, so they drove down there while the boys went on foot.
Anywho, a whole day passed before the boys got there, and when they found it, the camera zoomed in on the boy's body. It wasn't graphic, but it still made me freeze seeing it. I mean, the boy was supposed to be around their age and he was already dead. It seemed more realistic to me than any other movie body I'd seen, all of those graphic, guts-n-gore, torn-in-half bodies. It really shook me up seeing it because it reminded me that it can happen to literally anyone, with bad luck or good luck, boy or girl, ANYONE. Plus, it reminded me about something that happened a little over 5 years ago to someone I knew well.
OK, getting out of the serious part, there was a scene in it where they go through marsh water, and the boys get leeches all over them. The funny part was that the main character gets a leech stuck to his balls and faints.
As before, I won't write about this stuff often, but I needed to say something about it. I'll pick up on where I left off with my crazy stuff soon.
-MT
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Randomness!
RandomYeah, I know, I already have a random thing going on, but this one isn't specific to anything! (as it should be...) That's me standing barefoot in the snow. Just so you know.
