Keeping the flame lit.
Posted on 7:10 PM by Rob
Some good news prompts this week's post. In 6th grade there was a girl who sat next to me. She was tall, dark-haired, and wore Guns n Roses tees most days to school. Her voice had a bit of rasp and a bit of bass to it, she smoked, she cursed, and mostly, she was the first woman I knew who was my age. A friend of mine told me once she was the first girl who he kissed. In actuality, she kissed him - pulled him off the curb and forced one right on him. They were 12 or so.
Years pass. She finds me on facebook. I really hate those messages for the most part. The how are you, how have you been, catch me up on the last 13 years of your life thing. A few slip through and you're glad. She is one of them. Her messages were the same as her greetings were in the those days of junior high; last names only, some curses dropped for measure.
She signed on to be filmed for the documentary and I am so glad she did. Of all of the maybe 12 or 15 people I had originally wanted for this film, she was number one or two.
Here's to her, Ms. R., and the interview that I know will bring us all back.
In honor of her, I continue posting pics of our favorite muse, Rachelle, (star of most of our pics). To high school, middle school and all the schools that were breeding grounds for hellions and those that refused to be reformed.
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