by Mike Bozart
~(~: “Yeah, she was only eighteen years old.”
33: “In Switzerland? Was she on vacation?”
^|^: “No, she was attending an American college over there. She fell off a cliff over 200 feet high after drinking some beer with a fellow student. He fell to his death, too.”
33: “They both died together, at the same time?”
^|^: “I believe so. Maybe one of them started to slip and grabbed the other, pulling him/her off the precipice with them.”
33: “Yeah, that’s very tragic. Terrible.”
~(~: “What about a joint suicide? You know, 1-2-3, jump!”
^|^: “Will you stop with all of the suicide theories!”
~(~: “Well, you can’t rule it out, given the circumstances.”
33: “What did her note say? Her message in the bottle.”
^|^: “It read: ‘Be excellent to yourself dude’. [Click here to see the actual note.]
~(~: “I think I’ve heard that quote before.”
^|^: “Yeah, it’s a quote from the movie Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure. It was her favorite film at the time.”
33: “Well, that sure is a nice positive note. Some good self-help advice. So many people mentally beating themselves up, day after day.”