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DVD BUYING: SHARE WEIRD STORIES, NUMBER YOU BOUGHT and FOR WHOM?
EnnisDelMar:
Wow^^^...
ednbarby:
Sheyne, kids are The Shit, aren't they?
You know, I saw quite a few R-rated movies when I was 13 and 14. I used to go every Friday night to the cinema next door to the restaurant my parents and their cronies haunted. My Dad would give me a few bucks and I'd go watch the 7:00 show of whatever was playing after having eaten my dinner at the bar during their cocktail hour. I was as tall as I am now - 5'7" - then, and I looked older, so no one ever questioned me. It was usually just another kid in my school selling the tickets, anyway.
It's something, though - as adults we constantly underestimate the children around us. We don't mean to - it's just human nature. But when I think of myself at that age, I had it goin' on where sensitivity and compassion were concerned. Hell, I was bursting with it. Movies and music and writing were my outlets for all the hormones a-ragin'.
I love Ennis' girls in Brokeback. I love how they really know all along about their father. They both take a good long look at Jack when he drives to Riverton after the divorce, and there's not a hint of judgment in their eyes. Curiosity only. They must know. Children always do.
I knew my Dad started having an affair around when I was 15 or 16, and I knew exactly with whom. It went on for years. He and my stepmother never said a word about it. I could just tell by the way my dad looked at and talked to her - she was someone we saw regularly at the sailing club we belonged to and of which he was the Commodore that year. Years later, I ran into a guy I'd gone to high school with who worked there the summer between senior year and freshman year of college. He got talking about her - she had worked there, too - and I said, "Let me ask you something. I already know the answer, but just humor me. Were she and my Dad having an affair all those years?" He goes, "I... don't think it's my place to answer that." I thought, well, you just did. But I reassured him that I always knew, that there was no love lost between my stepmother and me, and that I was just curious. Sometimes I wonder if she was the love of my Dad's life. I like to think it was my mother, who he still talks about. Do you know - my parents married and divorced each other twice? Before me and my brothers were born. Talk about a volatile relationship.
But I digress (and digress and digress).
Back to the original subject - kids are The Shit. :)
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