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Lake WennahatcheeFor one week that summer of 1971, my family and Paul Pfeiffer's rented side-by-side cabins along its placid shores.
- Dammit! It was a place to get away from the aggravations of modern suburban life - I got one! Escape from the petty everyday competition.
JackHoney? Hotdogs or hamburgers for dinner? We're gonna have fish, dammit! The kind of paradise that made you wish you could stay forever.
- Paul, let's go! - I'm coming! I'm putting on bugspray.
- Well, hurry up! That was me, Kevin Arnold.
And that August there was pretty much only one thing on my mind.
Paul, come on, let's get outta here! Hi, Kevin - Hi, Deb.
Paul, come on! - Move! - Where you guys going? - None of your business.
Where we went didn't matter.
Getting away was all that counted.
- Sayyou boys want to do some fishing? - No thanks, Dad! After all, we had more important things to do.
- So, what do you want to do? - Got me I can't believe it.
What happened to this place? Used to be great.
Now look.
Snoresville.
Over the summer my best friend had gained two thingsA new set of contact lenses And a new set of hormones.
I could be home right now, making time with Julie Zeller.
- Heh, you're dreaming, pal! - And I'd probably gotten to second base by now.
- Oh, right.
Like you would even know what to do.
- I know what to do.
- Give me a break.
- Yeah? Listen.
It just so happens, I got a certain 25-cent little insurance policy, huh? The famous Pfeiffer ***.
Paul had been bragging about it ever since he got it in July.
- Paul, not again It was kind of his rabbit's foot.
You know Douggie Sherman? Well He picked up about two dozen of these things in a men's room near St.
Louis.
I got mine off him for fifty cents But suddenly, I wasn't listening anymore.
"Mannish Boy" - Muddy Waters ��Oh Yeah�� ��Oh yeahahahaha�� ��Everything gonna be alright this morning!�� ��Now when I was a young boy�� ��At the age of five�� ��My mother said I'd be�� ��The greatest man alive�� - Here it is! The Red Chief Special! Paul, you don't need to rub it in my nose! Come on.
Let's get out of here.
Sorry we're late.
You guys were supposed to be here three hours ago.
Yeah, well, we uhtook the scenic route, hnnn.
Tell him, Wart! Hehehe, we took the scenic route.
That was Wayne's buddy Dave Wirtshafter.
Everybody called him "Wart".
Hard guy to look at.
Say, I have a fun thought for tonight.
How about a campfire! Sounds good to me, Mom! Oh, no Sorry we'regoing to be at the drive-in tonight.
But hang on! Did he say? Yeah.
At the drive-in.
Planet of the Apes.
Great! We'll come with you.
You must be joking.
OK, so it cost us fifteen bucks.
Plus gas.
At least we'd found a place to hide out for the night.
Get out! Tell 'em, Wart! Get out! And there you had it.
We'd hit bottom.
We were stranded.
At a drive-in - with no car, fifty cents in our pockets, and no place to go but"Planet of the Apes".
And then it happened I knew that truck.
I knew that girl.
And I knew what I had to do.
Let's go talk to her.
Are you crazy? We don't even know her! Great.
Mr.
***-in-his-wallet was afraid of locals.
Look, Paul - you're the one who said you wanted to meet girls.
OK.
OKAll I needed was a snappy opening.
You, uhgot another cigarette? Sorry.
Bummed this one myself.
Oh.
You can have a drag on mine if you want.
My goal was to appear like I'd been doing this my whole life.
You don't smoke, do you? Oh.
Uhsometimes.
You shouldn't.
It doesn't flatter you.
Oh?What about you? I shouldn't either.
The thing is, for some reason I couldn't breathe.
- Sowhere're you from? - Here.
Where, the drive-in? About a half-mile from here.
I'm Kevin.
- Andthis is Paul.
- Hi.
- Hey.
Cara.
- Hey, Cara! - You wanna hang out, or you want to go? - Whatever.
I think my brother wants to split.
- Well, it was nice talking to you, Cara.
- Yeah.
- And maybe we'll see you around.
- Yeah.
Maybe.
And that was it.
Except, that in that brief wrinkle of time, I knew beyond a doubtThat something had happenedsomething big.
Hey! If you're around tomorrow nightI'll be here.
I guess she knew it too.
Oh.
You think you have aa friend or someone who maybe wants to come along? Yeah.
MaybeLori! Lori? That's great! Sure.
Love to go.
- Fantastic! - Meet ya out back.
If I can just grab my associate for one quick second here.
So, what do you think? I'm not going! No way on Earth.
Kev - I'm your best friend.
I'll do anything you want me to do.
But please, don't ask me to do this for you.
It was the heartfelt cry of a dear and trusted friend.
So I really had no choice.
- Seeya! - G'night, Paul.
It was true I hardly knew these kids, and I'd just met this girl.
And I had no idea where I was going.
Seemed to me, that was exactly the point.
- Nice night.
- Yeah.
That night I felt a million miles from everything I'd known before.
- I'm starting high school in the fall.
- Me, too.
- Stinks.
- Yeah.
- Maybe things will pick up when I get my license.
- That's what I'm hoping.
A little mobility.
You should come up and visit me.
I'd like that.
The thing is, even though I'd just met this woman, I felt like I'd known her my whole life.
Hey, Cara! You want to go, or you want to hang out awhile? Leave us alone, Billy! He watches out for you, huh? The guys around here are idiots, you know? Yeah.
And the summer guysThey're pretty much to stay away from.
Oh My brother hates that I smoke.
Do your parents know? Sometimes it's like they're speaking a different language.
You know? YeahI know.
We were so much like each other.
I could feel myself missing her.
Even while I was with her.
I'm not supposed to trust you, you know Sodo you? Yeah.
Lemme.
I thought you were gonna light my cigarette.
- Nice night "So Happy Together" - The Turtles Yeah.
And it was.
��Imagine me and you, I do�� ��I think about you day and night�� ��It's only right�� Over the next few days, I did my best to be a good son to my dad.
To my family.
��So happy together�� Hey, Kevin! ��If I should call you up, invest a dime�� But somehow, something kept calling me away.
��And you say you belong to me�� I gotta go, Dad.
��And ease my mind�� ��Imagine how the world could be So very fine�� ��So happy together�� Cara and I had found something no two people had ever found before.
��I can't see me loving nobody but you for all my life�� Each other.
��When you're with me, baby, the skies will be blue for all my life�� We talked about everything.
��Me and you�� Almost everything.
��And you and me�� - Will I see you tomorrow night? - Sure! ��No matter how they tossed the dice�� ��It had to be The only one for me is you�� Of course.
��And you for me So happy together�� Trouble was, I was running out of nights - and fast.
��So happy together�� I guess somehow, I just kept hoping something would happen.
And then, it did.
Look.
Alvin Alvin, look at this.
What is this? - What is this? Look what my son has.
- Oh my Gosh! - My wallet! - Where'd he get this from? - What is this? - I got one! I got one! Guess you could call it a red-letter day.
Hah? Here we go! Eat up.
Fish turned out great, honey.
Aren't you all proud of your father? Yeah, we've got fish for days, hehehh.
Yeah, we've got fish for days.
Of course I was more than glad to be there for Dad's moment of triumph.
- Well, I gotta run.
- Honey? Run where? To the drive-in.
You know, with Paul.
'Fraid not, honey bunch.
The Pfeiffster's not going anywhere.
Mr.
Rubberhead's grounded for life.
Hahahahah.
Wayne! Look, Mom, I just have somethin' I have to do.
OK? Wait a minute.
You know why I brought the whole family up here? Because I thought it might be nice For the whole family to spend a little time.
Together.
I caught that fishSo we could all enjoy it.
Together.
And since this is our last night I thought we'dspend it with each other.
Together.
- But, Dad - Kev! I mean it.
Part of me knew he was right.
But another part of me knew something more.
- I can't stay, Dad.
- Kevin! Sit down! - Why? - Because I say so.
And I'm your father.
There it was.
My whole life, they'd been his final words.
I'm sorry.
I'm goin'.
"Jamaica Say You Will" - Jackson Browne That night, huddled in that cab, we put the whole world behind us.
I didn't know what would happen when I got home.
It didn't matter.
- You like this? - SureWhatever I had to be with Cara.
I had to hold her.
I just couldn't bring myself to tell herI was leaving.
So.
What do you want to do tonight? You're leaving aren't you? Yeah.
That's too bad.
I'll miss you.
What's wrong? Nothing's wrong.
I'll miss you too.
Look We can still see each other.
I meanI get my license in a few months, I couldyou knowdrive up.
- Yeah.
/ - On weekends.
- Yeah I think I gotta hang out with my brother tonight.
I was losing her.
I guess I knew I had to, but Don't be like that! Sorry.
Look, I wanna stay.
You know that.
You gotta know that, more than anything! But there was nothing more I could say.
Except I'm sorry.
I'm not.
��Jamaica was a sweet one I loved her true�� ��She was a comfort and a mercy through and through�� ��Hiding from this world together, next thing I knew�� ��We're brought her things down to the bay - what could I do�� ��Jamaica, say you will�� ��Help me find a way�� ��To fill these sails And stay until�� I wanted to stay there, in that night.
More than anything I'd wanted before.
��Our waters have run dry�� But I knew I couldn't.
I was fifteen.
I slept under a roof my father owned, in a bed my father bought.
��Jamaica say you will�� Nothing was mine.
Except my heart.
And my fears.
��Help me find a way�� And my growing knowledge ��To fill these sails�� That not every road was going to lead home, anymore.
��And we'll sail until Our waters have run dry�� �����մϴ�.
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