... makes the ending much more sordid (..and believable if what followed in the 50yrs is any indication).
So we are left knowing what it is he is truly sorry about leaving behind and it's not something so innocent as a boyhood sled.
Clearly the snow in the Snow Globe made him think of winter and his best Winter memory was probably him riding Rosebud down hills. I doubt that Sled did him much good living at Xanadu in Florida. I wasn't lucky enough to own a fancy sled like that. All my parents ever bought me was cheap plastic sleds or blow up sleds. I recall one year (1987?) sledding and my sister was hit in the shin by a Flexible Flyer very similar to Rosebud. It broker her shin bone. I saw it happen it made her do an entire front flip. She had some bad luck as a kid.
shareSurely his father would have made it for him back then?
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