I'm still speechless...
In a span of 72 hours I saw the movie Baby Blues (a horror/thriller about a mom going crazy due to postpartum depression) and watched the Disney classic Bambi. Now these are two events that seem relatively removed from one another.... I thought so too.
WE WERE WRONG.
On the third day on my way back to Illinois it all came to a head. A doe decided to launch herself at my car as I was traveling down the highway at 70 mph.
No I didn't hit her, she literally jumped from the ditch at my car and then was knocked back into the ditch. She hit me and she meant it.
I then realized what was happening. My two previous evenings were colliding. She was a postpartum doe on the verge, but instead of killing her kids like the woman does in Baby Blues decided to take her own life, fulfilling the Bambi motif.
And then I got to thinking.... You know we never actually see Bambi's mom get shot. We never see her fall, or even the hunters who supposedly kill her. We only see Bambi running and hear a gunshot. What if this whole time we've been under a false illusion that Bambi's mom was murdered? I mean this postpartum doe can't be the first right?
It makes sense. Not only was she a mom, but can you imagine the pressure of being the mother of the Young Prince of the forest? Especially with absolutely no support from the paternal side. That's a lot. Having to be the Great Prince of the Forest's babymama and to have no help? Girl please. Bambi's mom killed herself, there's no way around it.
Maybe I'm just seeing an unlikely coincidence, maybe I'm loopy from the $4,000 repair estimate. But it's possible. Think about it.
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