Thirty-One Years Ago Today

[EEA]

@EEA That with the tree and the swings is pretty original idea.

Thanks.

[gkmoberg1]

Part Two: The Humiliation

Wednesday
28 October, 1981

• Children in schoolyard, fearful of stranger.
• News of a reported Russian submarine
• Bullying Oskar in the school sandbox.
• Oskar and the Morse Code
• Gösta discusses with Giselle what he saw out his window.
• Oskar in Tommy's basement hideout.
• Tommy, Robban, Lasse in the basement hideout.
• "Hit them back. Hard."

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[EEA]

Before Eli and Oskar meet outside.


Eli
Oskar, I can stop this. Not go out tonight. Not tap. Let him go. Ina few days I will have to move. But I like him. And that's a problem, I am breaking my rules. Not to be noticed, stay in the dark, and now I am.. What am I doing?

Oskar
They hit me. So that's the story. Everyone believes what I tell them. Tommy I ignored what he said. He has told me to fight back, but with him I leave things as they are. My mom believes her when I tell her that I fell down. Hugs me, gives what I want, someone to feel sorry for me.
I see the wall, Eli is on the other side. I like her a lot, with her I can be anything. But what will she think? It is important for me Eli if you can see me for who I am then....

Eli
I have to. I want to see Oskar. Oskar if you know me, if I show you will you be with me still...
Taptaptaptap... Will he answer....


Oskar
Maybe she won't come, maybe she knows what happen to me and feels ashamed to be seen with me.... I lay my head next to the wall..
And she does tap! Tap for me. I will, I will come!
Taptaptaptap...

[EEA]

Oskar and Eli meet by the playground. Eli questions Oskar about what happened to him.

Oskar
Maybe she won't notice. I will show her the Morse Code! That way we can just talk about how the whole Morse code works.
"Hey there."
Ah I am never saying hey there again. Why can't I just say hi. A simple hi. Eli is wearing, it looks like my Star Wars t-shirt. No way, she probably has one too. But she notices it. My cheek. I see her frown.

Eli
I can feel that something is wrong. Oskar is trying to hide his face. I noticed. Knowing that someone has hurt him makes me angry because I could do nothing to help him...
"What happened to your cheek?"
Oskar...

Oskar
What am I suppose to say.. The same kids who I let beat me, have done it again. That this is something that I am familiar to me. That it will happen another day again... So I lie, that works.
"Phhh...I...fell."

Eli
I want to say something, tell him but he just continues to walk to the playground. He sits by one of the swings,I sit on the other swing. We swing slowly forward and backwards in silence. Oskar...

[Clubmeister]

...He sits by one of the swings, I sit on the other swing. We swing slowly forward and backwards in silence. Oskar...

Hm... Another interesting version begins

[EEA]

Thanks.

[EEA]

Another way
If there was another way
Another answer
If there was
I would take it but
There isn't so
I do what I have to do
I take what I can
And all I want to ask you
So if after knowing who I am
Would you still come with me?

[dongregg]

Sunday Night
18 October 1981
North of Norrköping


"Are we there yet?"

Two six-year-old grand daughters (They are 22 now)

To be sung as soon as the car leaves the driveway until we arrive, however long that is.

To the tune of Frere Jacques

Are we there yet, are we there yet?
Tell us now, tell us now.
Tell us when we get there, tell us when we get there.
Is it soon, is it soon?

[gkmoberg1]

Love it!

Quick: Plot change.... give Eli a twin and have them travel through time together. Håkan, then, inherits the maintenance of twin 11 yr olds in Växjo.

It's a little frightening to me, but I have no memory of writing the scene you are referring to! I wrote that, huh? wow.