today’s Dickensian moment
By raincoaster
As longtime TeenyManolo-goers know, the ol’ raincoaster here is not normally what you might call all about the cute. I have never yet been mistaken for a character from Pokemon, nor for any plucky heroine from some wholesome novel for young girls. I’m the Bad Auntie: the one who lets them swear, the one who feeds them pie for breakfast, the one who hooks them on computer games, the one who takes them to the racetrack instead of the pony rides.
And yet, this little story warmed even the crisped and sere cockles of my freeze-dried heart, which grew three sizes upon persusal of these poignant paragraphs.
…The old man’s smile was unbelievable, the kind of smile that infected onlookers alike. I know I must have had the same smile upon my face after viewing this event. After, I thought to myself, maybe humans will turn out alright.
Well, what are you still doing here? Go read it!
September 18th, 2007 at 7:40 pm
Awwww, what a nice kid. It’s so hard when the media give us such bad news all the time, the good stuff just gets buried.
September 18th, 2007 at 8:16 pm
Yeah, that kid was my hero o’ the day for sure.