Happy Ending - Disney Style (sort of)

[Betty]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/09/10/res...rss_topstories

(CNN) -- Walter Marino shouted to his 12-year-old son, Christopher, as he drifted farther away in the Atlantic Ocean.


A Coast Guard crew found Christopher three miles away from where his father was rescued.

"To infinity," the father yelled.

"And beyond," Christopher replied.

After a rip current swept the boy and his father out to sea Saturday, darkness fell, and the sound of rescue helicopters and boats grew faint until they were nonexistent.

Despite the danger, Christopher, who has autism, was enjoying himself, his father said. The boy lacks a fear of death because of his autism and finds comfort in the water, Marino told CNN.

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After four hours, the currents picked up, and Christopher began to drift from his father's reach. Because of the darkness, they couldn't see each other. So Marino shouted out part of a phrase to his son. Watch the Marino family talk about the ordeal with CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta »

"To infinity," Marino shouted, referencing one of Christopher's favorite lines from the movie "Toy Story."

"And beyond," Christopher shouted back, pumping his fist in the air like movie character Buzz Lightyear.

The call and response went on for a while, with Marino choosing different phrases and Christopher yelling back. But over the course of an hour, Christopher's voice faded until his father couldn't hear him anymore.

"That's when I resigned myself to the fact that he was gone," Marino told CNN, saying he believed his son had been pulled under the water. At the time, Marino said, he thought about giving up, until he thought of his daughter Angela. She had just registered for ballroom dance classes, and he told himself over and over he would live to see her dance.

[flippyshark]

This makes two thread titles that have the words "Happy Ending" in them - and of course *sigh* my inner adolescent just has to turn them into a dirty joke. (I don't know if it's worse to ponder "Disney Style" or "Animal Tales" in this regard - and apart from bringing it up, I'm not going to go there.)

[Betty]

Well they could really go together:

Happy ending Disney Animal Style!

(Which Princess REALLY likes Goofy?)

[innerSpaceman]

Oh, this makes me so darn happy.

Most of the threads around here have been bad news lately. It seems the the majority of the action has been in the Vent thread and the political threads. This is a nice change of pace.

[Snowflake]

Originally Posted by Betty

Well they could really go together:

Happy ending Disney Animal Style!

(Which Princess REALLY likes Goofy?)

Now this sounds like an In N Out burger combo. Can you tell I need some lunch?

[BDBopper]

Wow. Thanks for sharing. That warmed my heart!

[libraryvixen]

I saw them on the news this morning. It made me smile!

[~MS~]

Taking blessings where they're found...his disability saved his life. Thanks for sharing this...sometimes miracles do hide.