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Inspiration From Real Life
Anyone ever heard of Steve-O? From the MTV show Jackass?
I hadn't; I have no interest in that show. I first "met" Steve-O on Dancing With the Stars, when his story of struggling with drug addiction--from age twelve--came to light. He worked so hard to better himself, as a man and in the momentary dancing challenge on the show, and left me weeping more than once.
Yet he's the type of person I usually can't stand. He has that Peter-Pan masculinity based around fart jokes and childish stunts, a personality I usually equate with jerkish behavior and stupidity.
He has, in other words, forced me to re-evaluate a lot of my own prejudices. Something else to be grateful to him for.
I must write a story about it!
-Elizabeth Reuter
Author, The Demon of Renaissance Drive
I hadn't; I have no interest in that show. I first "met" Steve-O on Dancing With the Stars, when his story of struggling with drug addiction--from age twelve--came to light. He worked so hard to better himself, as a man and in the momentary dancing challenge on the show, and left me weeping more than once.
Yet he's the type of person I usually can't stand. He has that Peter-Pan masculinity based around fart jokes and childish stunts, a personality I usually equate with jerkish behavior and stupidity.
He has, in other words, forced me to re-evaluate a lot of my own prejudices. Something else to be grateful to him for.
I must write a story about it!
-Elizabeth Reuter
Author, The Demon of Renaissance Drive
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