And the book I can't stop the waterworks for? Winnie the Pooh. Christopher Robin grows up in that one, too!
At the end of the book, Pooh wants to know if a bear could be a Knight, which of course he could be, so Christopher Robin knights Pooh with a stick and says "Rise, Sir Pooh de Bear". Pooh thanks him and sits down again, and goes off into a bit of a dream for a while.
Suddenly Christopher Robin interrupts Pooh's musings, and tells Pooh that he's not going to be doing Nothing anymore, or at least not so much, because he won't be allowed.
Christopher Robin says to Pooh that when he...you know, when he's not allowed to do Nothing anymore, he would like Pooh to come up to the enchanted place sometimes. Pooh says "Just me?", and Christopher Robin says yes, and Pooh asks Christopher Robin if he will be there with him, and Christopher Robin says that he will really.
Christopher Robin then asks Pooh to promise to never, not ever forget about him, not even when he is one hundred (and Pooh is 99). Pooh promises to never forget. Christopher Robin looks out at the world, and asks Pooh to understand, whatever happens, and Pooh asks what it is he needs to understand, and Christopher Robin says nevermind, and then Come on!, and Pooh says where to, and Christopher Robin says "Anywhere".
And the last line of the book is:
"So they went off together. But wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the Forest a little boy and his Bear will always be playing."
Oh all moms I've ever known, I'm so sorry I ever rolled my eyes when you got weepy!
3 comments:
I bawled too! I wept through the whole last part of that movie the first and second time I saw it. I also bawled through a good portion of Up. I've decided Pixar just knows how to pull my heart strings.
Emily, I know what you are talking about. It was almost too much when Owen went to kindergarten. I haven't seen Toy Story 3 yet but I will now go armed with a box of tissues.
so, I'm getting weepy just reading this. I'm so soft and sappy.
I'm glad you got to see the movie.
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