The Girl on the Half-Shell

It is a Laverne and Shirley.

Laverne decides to vo-dee-o-dodo with a man because she believes the best about him, despite the evidence and Shirley’s urging that perhaps this man is not what he seems. It turns out, Shirley is right. Sitting on the sofa in the middle of their apartment, Laverne tells Shirley she feels stupid.

“You’re not stupid,” Shirley says, “you’re a romantic.”

I was nine or ten when I watched this episode, but I had already experienced a few things that made me feel stupid, marked for the worst, the same way Laverne felt marked for the worst. I breathed in the word romantic, the escape of it.

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