Sunday, Jan. 06, 2008 - 10:34 pm

One night, years ago, I was bored and flipping through channels on tv. I had cable back then and seemed to always stop on the Turner Classics channel. This particular night I noticed that the black and white movie I was watching had Orson Welles in it and I like him so I was glued. The movie was 'Jane Eyre' and I fell in love with the story and the Charles Rochester character.

Fast forward to last Sunday. I'm bored and flipping through channels on tv. I don't have cable and I seem to always land on PBS. Last Sunday on Masterpiece Theatre I saw that 'Jane Eyre' was going to be featured, but it was a more updated version. I really like the whole base of the story so I gave this new version a chance. I got sucked right in and fell in love with it too. Boy, was I MAD when I found out it was a 2-part deal.

I've been looking forward to Sunday 8pm for a week!

I loved this newer version even better than the older one and that is not like me at all. Don't get me started on 'Romeo & Juliet'! The one with Olivia Hussey is the only one for me, thanks.

Anyway.

I was looking through some old photos and found some of me with the Moron Twin Uncles From Hell when I was very little. Back when I still idolized them, before I knew the damage they were doing to my Mom and Nana.

The night I lost my Mom I severed ties with them completely so it was very strange for me to hear this quote in the newer version of 'Jane Eyre' that I don't remember being in the Orson Welles version:

"I tell you this plainly; and listen: for though I shall no more repeat what I am now about to say, I shall steadily act on it. After my mother's death, I wash my hands of you: from the day her coffin is carried to the vault in Gateshead Church, you and I will be as separate as if we had never known each other. You need not think that because we chanced to be born of the same parents, I shall suffer you to fasten me down by even the feeblest claim: I can tell you this--if the whole human race, ourselves excepted, were swept away, and we two stood alone on the earth, I would leave you in the old world, and betake myself to the new."

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