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| The Vampire Deutsch: Der Vampir (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
My expert is my sister Rebbie, who is kind of a vampire scholar/hobbyist (last year, she spent what I thought was an outrageous amount of money on the complete DVD set of Dark Shadows. It came in a coffin. Need I say more?). She once told me that "Bella is me-- when I was twelve years old!" Now (ten years later) she says that she agrees that Stephanie Meyer is working the Cinderella story in the Twilight books, but she says that's a problem, because what Bella wants are all childish things: "She wants to stay young and beautiful (which I don't think she is. Definitely not in the movies), marry a rich guy, and get her own way. She is unbelievably selfish, and doesn't have any interest in anything but herself." (my response: "Don't hold back. Tell me what you really think.)
Rebbie did grow out of her vampire fantasies by the time she was about sixteen, when, she says, "I began to realize that there were a lot of important things I should be worrying about, and the last thing I wanted to do was depend on someone else to give my life meaning." I should point out that she doesn't usually talk like this. I think she was trying to be the big sister when she said it. My take on her Goth years is that the black eyeliner kept irritating her eyes, which sort of took the romance out of it all.
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