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Its a true story but sounds more like something

  • Its a true story but sounds more like something you see in the movies. This guy was lost as a kid. He gets adopted by foreigners and after 20 years with the help of Google Earth he
  • finds his parents standing in front a trailer after randomly searching for "LaLaLand." He didn't even know it was a real place! He wrote down the address and
  • "LaLaLand or bust" on a cardboard sign & hitched a ride with a hippy named Chaco in his psychedelically decorated VW bus. He had a few questions to ask his old folks!
  • When they arrived, he entered his parents' house. Would they heal the wounds they'd left in his heart? "Ma? Pa?" he said to the empty hallway, hoping that they would be
  • home, but his parents had been gone long ago. A forlorn hobo emerged from the hall closet, confirming his worst fears. "I'll be your Daddy," he said with a twinkle in his eye.
  • "No, literally, I'll be your Daddy." The boy stumbles backwards. The hobo continues: "My son never loved me... is it so bad, boy? I just want to take you fishing." The hobo reaches
  • for the boy but his mother slaps the hobo's face. The angry red-haired mother pulls her boy behind her skirt. The hobo's chance for human contact has been destroyed. He reaches
  • the third plateau of human misery later that day when a stray dog beats him to the crust bag from Mr. Perriwig's Delicatessen. The hobo reaches the fourth plateau
  • of human misery when an old bag with a handbag filled with coins beats him senseless when he asks for change so he can buy half of a sandwich. The hobo reaches the fifth plateau of
  • the hermetic street school, when all of a sudden, it hits him. The bag was a bag within a bag, stitched together with fading hymns on crusty archival paper. Inside, a sandwich.
Started
2013-09-26 11:11:26
Finished
2014-01-03 02:43:10

4 Comments

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    m80 Jan 03 2014 @ 12:04

    I'm pleased the new year has started off with such a dramatic, touching, inspirational hobo story, and now I am assured that even though life may beat the crap outta me, I *will* find my sandwich.
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    49erFaithful Jan 03 2014 @ 12:31

    You just have to look for the bag within a bag. Don't stop at the first bag.
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    hamstak Jan 03 2014 @ 12:46

    The problem is that its just bags, all the way down. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down
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    49erFaithful Jan 03 2014 @ 16:22

    Nice. Little old lady schooled Mr. James properly.

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