How it might have turned out for Hugo and Edward

[charlie_cochrane]

You know how you read something and it sticks with you?

Michael Llewellyn-Davies (one of the inspirations for the Darling boys in Peter Pan and the model for the statue of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens) died in May 1921, drowning with his friend Rupert Buxton while bathing in a mill-pond at Standford Pool, Oxford. "Michael had never been able to swim and there was widespread speculation after his death, that in fact the two inseparable companions had made a suicide pact."

Isn't that sad? And it did make me think of my Hugo and Edward.

Comments

[mzcalypso.livejournal.com]

The suicide rate among glbt teens is considerably higher than their het counterparts. At that time, there may have seemed like no other way out. But you do also have that lovely old tomb inscription that's the better possibility.

[charliecochrane.livejournal.com]

That doesn't surprise me. One of the charities I support is for GLBT kids who've been kicked out of their homes - such a shame that people can't learn to embrace difference.

Tomb inscription? Ooh do enlighten me.

[mzcalypso.livejournal.com]

the one you posted about! - isn't there a gravestone at Cambridge of two dons who were clearly the closest of friends?

[charliecochrane.livejournal.com]

Oh yes - I'd lost the plot there. There are two, both lovely. "Love joined them in living. So may the earth join them in their burial."

If you have a mo (but soon, it won't be there long) go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/shows/wogan/pauseforthought.shtml and look at Ruth Scott's thought for yesterday. She's a star.