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My best friend and I started writing a screenplay for a movie a few years back but never finished it. It was based on our sophomore year of college, which was crazy for many reasons:
- My best friend broke up with his longtime girlfriend over a girl in college, but it was cut short when the new girls' mom killed herself.
- I was in love with a girl whose boyfriend was a drug dealing woman abuser.
- We watched a bright, cleancut friend sink to the lowest of lows after heavy drug use.
- My friend's roommate fell for a girl, pushed it too far, and then "disappeared" for about a week.
Many other things as well. There wouldn't be a plot per se, just a year in the life of a group of college sophomores, many of whom experience some hardcore "real life" for the first time.
We even had a title for it: "Fools Will Try". It's from a song by Ralph Covert of the same name, the chorus of which says "And don't let them drag you down/though fools will try, be cool and strong/Be true to the truth you found/though fools will try, to bring you down."
Maybe we'll finish it someday.
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