Story Of Love
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This is my story…
A year ago something that crossed my path changed me and
my life completely. From a certain point of view it made
me believe that some things are just destined. And that
there’s no way you could have avoided ‘this
collision’. To fully understand what I’m going
to say, we have to go back 22 years in time. In 1986-1986
my cousin and me were a huge fan of a certain ‘youth
series’ on Flemish television. We watched every episode
and kept watching the last episode of part 2 over and over
again. There was a time we couldn’t even think about
anything else. We wanted to be exactly like our ‘youth
heroes’. Our parents even got us the book, and a signed
picture… My mom once recorded an episode on an audio
tape which I’ve listened to over and over again. But
that’s not really the point. Was it just a coincidence
that I became a fan of this program? Well, I don’t
think so. A couple of years ago I went searching the net
for all the episodes. I couldn’t find any information
or just little information concerning the series. There
were no videos on youtube… really nothing. Now in
the year 2007, Mothersday, we had a family meeting. I was
there so was my cousin. We were sitting at the table discussing
about the series and how great it would be, if we could
just lay our hand on all the episodes and start watching
them all over again. This was actually ‘the beginning’
of my search, which actually started some 22 years earlier
when the series had come to an end. Now suppose I was unable
to make the family meeting on ‘Mothersday’.
Or my cousin wasn’t there? Or she was there but didn’t
start the discussion? Well my search after the episodes
wouldn’t even have begun!
I started writing/emailing the actors, director, creative
staff… even certain departments of the government
because the series had an educational role to fulfill. The
main purpose of the series was to let children drink more
milk. It would make you stronger… I kept searching
without any success I might add. Some time later I received
a mailadress from one of the lead actors. I wrote him, and
the day after he replied that he had every episode on VHS.
So my search was finished. After a couple of months I succeeded
in finding them. That same day I told my cousin that in
a couple of weeks we could start watching our favourite
youth program again. At least that’s what I thought.
I’ve never heard anything about him after that day.
So my search wasn’t ended after all. I immediately
came up with the idea to start making a weblog, with details
of my search. Maybe that could lead me to all the episodes.
Just a month after the creation of the weblog, I contacted
an actor which I hadn’t written yet. He clamed to
have several episodes, just not all of them. But at least
I was getting somewhere. So I copied his VHS to dvd and
went searching for the remaining episodes. Months went by…
and on January 30th 2008 something amazing happened.
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