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#Buttercup and westley full#
We were starry-eyed then, full of dreams and romantic notions of a lifetime filled with roses and love notes.īut here we stand, 23 years in, and I have to wonder if the love we grew into lived up to our teenage intentions and declarations. Those cartoons boiled love down into a handful of syllables and simple promises. When my husband and I first started dating in high school, he would clip the small “Love is…” cartoons out of our local newspaper and leave them in my locker between classes. About what dreams of love look like and about what actual love looks like. That night I lay in bed and thought about what she’d said, about what love looks like to a nine-year-old girl on the brink of her own journey of self-discovery. I laughed and threw a piece of popcorn at her. She shrugged and said, “I’m just saying…” before wandering into the kitchen for a drink. “You think Buttercup loves Westley more than I love Daddy?” I asked incredulously. Immediately, my darling high school memories were replaced with my husband, now 23 years older, and his blasted inability to stay in the middle of his lane. “You know, Mom,” she went on, “if Buttercup and Westley were alive today, I bet Buttercup wouldn’t yell at Westley about his driving.” My mind wandered fondly to memories of my husband and I in high school, moon-eyed and crazy about each other. I remember those young-girl days, dreaming about romance and soul mates and kisses that change your life. I smiled and remarked about how very wonderful it is. She sighed happily at the end, as Westley and Buttercup ride off into the sunset together, and said, “I can’t wait until I have a love like that.” She smiled as she watched, taking in the romance, the humor, the adventure.
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#Buttercup and westley movie#
It’s an oft-quoted movie in our house, and she was eager to see where our enthusiastic one liners of, “You mock my pain!” and, “I knew he was bluffing” came from. My daughter and I watched “The Princess Bride” recently-a rare girls’ night while her brother and dad were spending the night at a Boy Scout sleepover. A post shared by Elephant Journal on at 6:47pm PST