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The Lost World, Nicholas Moegly

show me Eivor’s viking tresses though

I know only European actors were meant to be cast in the Potter films, but I figured since they did a crap representation of my favorite character, I'd show some here. I would love a Crocodile Hunteresque/Game of Thrones/How To Train Your Dragon - esque spin off showing Charlie on his dragon research adventures in Romania. ♥️🔥

“I was just a neighborhood kid. There was no running water in our house. Or electricity. So in the evenings, when I came home from school, I’d sit out near the road. Across the street there was a hotel where foreigners stayed.  I’d watch them play Frisbee. I’d watch them buy African souvenirs from the street vendors. Occasionally one of them would come speak to me. I was an inquisitive child. I liked to ask questions. So I think they found me entertaining. One evening an American girl came up to me and started asking me questions. Just small talk: ‘What’s your name?’, and things like that.  But then she asked my birthday, and I told her: ‘November 19th.’  ‘No way.’ she replied. ‘That’s my birthday too!’ And after that we became friends. Her name was Talia. She’d come visit me every evening, and bring me chocolate chip cookies.  She’d let me play her Game Boy.  She’d ask about my family.  She’d ask about school.  I was the best student in my third grade class, so I’d show her my report cards, and she’d get so excited.  She was the first person to take me to the beach.  I’d never even seen the ocean before.  We had so much fun together. But one evening she told me that she was going back to America. And I began to cry. She bought us matching necklaces from a street vendor, took one final picture, and promised that she’d write me letters. It was a promise that she kept. The first letter arrived a few weeks after she left. And there were many letters after that. She told her parents all about me. They invited me to America to stay with them for a month. They took me to baseball games, and amusement parks, and shopping trips. It was the best time of my life.  When I returned to Ghana, they paid for all my school fees. They bought my books and clothes. They paid for me to get a degree in engineering. Now I have my own company. The Cassis family turned my life around. I was just some random kid they didn’t know, and they gave me a chance for my dreams to come true. I went back to visit them last year. But this time I didn’t need them to pay my way. I was giving a speech at MIT, because I’d been selected as one of their top innovators under the age of 35.” #quarantinestories

Produce, Etienne Gros

“Mom died on the first day of school.  She’d been really sick that entire summer.  And she passed away on a Monday.  At 7 AM.  Almost exactly the time I’d be leaving for school.  I don’t think I fully grasped how traumatic it was for me.  I was there when she took her last breath.  I comforted my little sister while she said goodbye.  And the next week I had to start classes at a brand new school.  I was a junior at the time.  All the teachers knew what happened.  And they had told all the students, so everyone was pitying me when I showed up.  I met Alex that very first day.  We were in choir together.  We became friends almost immediately, but we didn’t start dating until we were both cast as leads in Seussical The Musical.  We became more serious during college, and we ended up getting married right after graduation.  I felt so sad that my mom couldn’t see any of it.  Every time a big event would happen, it would be like, she’s not here.  And she’s never going to be here.  I was a moody, shitty teenager when she died.  And I’m having this whole life where I become the person I’m supposed to be, and she doesn’t get to see any of it.  She’s not going to see me graduate.  She’s not going to meet my children.  And it especially sucks that she’ll never get to meet Alex.  We lit a lantern at our wedding to signify that my mom was still with us.  It was a beautiful ceremony, and afterwards we took our honeymoon in Hawaii.  A few days into the trip, I received a call from my oldest friend Meredith.  She sounded excited.  She’d just discovered a picture of our childhood soccer team, and there was a boy who looked just like Alex.  When I showed Alex the photo, he confirmed that it was him, he’d played goalie on that team.  I just started laughing.  It was such a God moment.  It was a moment when everything felt connected.  Alex and I had known each other as children, back when my mom was still alive.  The first thing I did was call my dad.  I asked him if he remembered anything about the Swan’s Dermatology Soccer Team.  ‘I remember the goalie,’ he replied. ‘During the games he’d always sit down in the net and play with the dirt.  And your mother thought it was hilarious.’” #quarantinestories

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