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Running, it’s
what we are trained to do from the very beginning. Whether running for health
in gym classes throughout school, playing tag as a child, any number of
sports. Toddlers try to run before they can walk. We are told to turn the
other cheek when confronted, stepping back to re-group, or flat out avoidance,
as humans, when faced with fight or flight, we instinctively take flight.
When our
story starts with a runaway bride, and our two best friends out for a run, finding
and friending her, it didn’t seem wrong. This is what Holland, Lincoln, and
Ethan do, what all of us do, try to stay in shape, run from our troubles, make
life work, and don’t rock the boat. Luckily for us, and them, one night of
fun and alcohol, lowered their inhibitions enough to act. They were all still
running, denying, from their feelings, and then later, each other, but it was
enough to make them try to stop in the moment. They had their fun, they had
the sweetness, the sexiness, the overflow of emotions, but they were still
quivering in their starting blocks, not realizing they were already in the
race. They almost lost it all, before someone (it’s Ethan) goes against his
natural instinct and stands and fights. That alone, makes all the pain and heartache,
all the doubts and fears, worth it. They all can still run, but they will be
running TO each other, not away, for all the good, the bad, the
sweet, and the saucy, that life will bring their way <3
Now as an aside,
remember the children’s rhyme, “run, run, run, as fast as you can, you can’t
catch me, I’m the gingerbread man”, well, our runaway bride has red hair, a
coincidence? Maybe, maybe not, but after reading the extended extra epilogue,
I wonder if a lot of gingerbread cookies are in Holland’s future…..hmmmm 😊
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