My mom often quotes the film Savannah Smiles, saying "we were just joshin', and jokin' and jivin'..." and it was funny. Alice and my mom had rented this flick about a young girl who's kidnapped by really nice ex-convicts and they make a loving makeshift family for a few days, and Alice and my mom both quoted the movie in this way.
Flash forward to this week, my mom is visiting from California, and I got her the dvd so we could watch it together. I waited for 97 minutes to hear the quotation, and it never came. There was a part where little Savannah says something, with like three or four actions in a row, but nothing close to what my mom said.
It gets me thinking.
I'm terrified of revising Alice's story. This blog is an attempt to chronicle some of Alice's life, relative to me, and I am so afraid that I may one day resort to making up details to fill in the blanks. Or create something that sounds nice but never was, like the joshin' and jivin' line.
The motion picture was really sweet, and I can see why Alice liked it; I liked it, too, and of course so did my mom and Peter. You see the good side to these "bad guys," and I think Alice related to that. She always wanted to save the down and out, the less fortunate, those who had been in trouble.
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