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The other day I was watching Local Point TV and it had "Storytellers" on. This is, obviously, a local station and the people on "Storytellers" live in the Baltimore-Washington area. Sometimes te stories are funny, sometimes not so great. But Twain Dooley's story was differnet from most.
Mr Dooley talked about growing up as a latchley kid . (For those of you unfamiliar with the term, it's a kid who basically comes home to an empty house because their parents or working.) Mr Dooley talked about the pleasures of summer when you could watch as much tv as your head could hold. He talked about his siblings (two brothers and a sister) and how they loved to watch "Ultraman". He talked about how they teased his yougest brother, Connerly (sp?) about how he had a head shape like "Ultraman" and all that ensued from that. He talked about how "Ultraman"s life force glowed from him and when it would fade, "Ultraman" had to go "power up". Mr Dooley also said that "nothing prepares you for the time the power went off completely".
He went on to talk about working at Guantanomo Bay, far away from his family in Washington, DC. Not much to do after work, he was watching tv when he got the call some of us here have gotten (some of us got the news in another way) - his youngest brother had died. A little investigation proved that it wasn't exactly true, but close enough. He went back to the states to visit his brother and to eventually attend the funeral for the 23 year old teacher. I'm not doing his story justice, so if you ever get the chance to see Twain Dooley for yourself, you should. He's absolutely right when he says nothing prepares you for when the life force goes out. Very poignant and very unusual to see any mention of sibling death on tv.