I could go with you?
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| — | Castiel, breaking everyone’s hearts, including Dean’s. (via casthewise) |
THE BACKSTORY: THE GUY WAS ON A DATE WITH ANOTHER WOMAN WHEN HE LEFT HER SIDE TO FORCIBLY KISS A STRANGER ON THE STREET - TALK ABOUT “ROMANTIC”!
‘They stopped the show and they said, “The war is over. The Japanese have surrendered,”’ he recalled.
Mendonsa and his date, who would become his future wife, rushed to a nearby bar where the sailor admits he ‘popped quite a few drinks.
As they set on their way, Mendonsa spotted a woman in a nurse’s uniform - he left Petry and rushed to grab her.
‘The excitement of the war being over, plus I had a few drinks,’ he told CBS. ‘So when I saw the nurse, I grabbed her, and I kissed her.’
'I did not see him approaching, and before I know it, I was in this vice grip,’ Friedman added.
Of course, that moment of wild elation, gratitude and passion was captured by LIFE photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt.
Mystery solved: A new book 'The Kissing Sailor’ resolves the long-held mystery by revealing 89-year-olds George Mendonsa, left, and Greta Zimmer Friedman, right, as the kissing couple
Friedman recognised herself in the timeless photograph once it was published. 'You don’t forget this guy grabbing you,’ she said.”
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UPDATE: for the dopey anti-fems responding to this post, saying “but she was cool with it, they’re pals! Feminist propaganda!”
1. If a guy shot a stranger on the street, and then found out the victim was suicidal, the takeaway isn’t “it’s all good, that behavior was cool.” If you do something shitty and the other person forgives you, great, but that doesn’t make the initial act un-shitty, it makes the forgiver cool.
2. Go look in the mirror and repeat three times, “I am arguing for the right of men to grab strangers on the street and forcibly make out with them.”
Then follow that up with 10 “What have I become?”s
Repeat as needed.
Reblogging to share the note I just added ^^^^^
Gross never knew this
DEAN SAID IT
THE WORDS I HAVE ALWAYS WANTED TO HEAR
the thing i have always wanted him to say to cas. more than i love you and more than i need you and more than you’re family
“you’re the best friend i ever had”
FUCK THIS FUCKS ME UP
FUCKING FINALLY
cas gets to hear it. dean gets to say it right to his face, all alone, just between the two of them. cas is finally somebody’s best something. cas is finally someone’s most something. he’s someone’s best friend
Dean and Cas talking.
DEAN VALIDATING CAS CHOOSING TO DO THE HARD THING.
DEAN TELLING CAS HOW MUCH HE HELPS.
REMINDING CAS THAT HE’S THEIR “BROTHER.”
Sure Dean.
BUT IT MEANT SO MUCH TO CAS TO HEAR THAT.
