| | | | | | Saturday, September 25, 2004 |
the most unfair thing
| | okay, so I am glutton for self punishment:
WINNIE: Here's what I think: I think this had to happen...today...tomorrow...some day. I mean it's not like we're kids anymore. Everybody grows up. It's not like Peter Pan or something...
KEVIN: No, it's not like Peter Pan. It's just...somehow I'd thought we'd be together, you know.
WINNIE: Yeah. Together forever.
[KEVIN smiles.]
KEVIN: It's not gonna happen, is it?
WINNIE: No.
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NARRATOR: Once upon a time there was a girl I knew, who lived across the street. Brown hair, brown eyes. When she smiled, I smiled. When she cried, I cried. Every single thing that ever happened to me that mattered, in some way had to do with her. That day Winnie and I promised each other that no matter what, that we'd always be together. It was a promise full of passion and truth and wisdom. It was the kind of promiss that can only come from the hearts of the very young.
In case you were wondering that was from the last episode of the Wonder Years, and it still makes me bawl. True, endings tend to make me sad, but my god, this was devastating at 8 years old (still pretty bad right now). Of course at 8 I was sure I was marrying Ramsey Brown, since I had known him all my life and he was the first boy I ever saw naked, looking like that won't turn out. I know what they say is true, but it crushes both the romantic and the storyteller in me. I am not sure at what age I will be okay with this ending... (especially since Kevin meets Winnie at the airport 8years later, with his WIFE and KIDS, oh god, as if it weren't bad enough that they didn't end up together, his life moves on!) Well, my mom seems to be okay with it, so by forty seven I ought to have this down, until then I am going to rage futily at the unfairness of life, and the unfairness of the writers for sticking to life!
posted by Amber at 1:19 PM
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