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This sports-culture fantasy-parable was inspired by Mr. Destiny and Heaven Can Wait.
Cheers,
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Jeremy was a professional football player. He played as a tight-end for the USC Trojans before being drafted by the New York Jets in 2019. Jeremy's hero/idol was the New York Giants tight-end Mark Bavaro whom he thought was the ideal team-contributing 'strong-guy tight-end.' Jeremy's first year with the Jets was difficult even though he was a Heisman-contender with the Trojans. However, in his second year with the Jets, his team was really doing well, and Jeremy was excited to contribute. He was still having difficulty and in a panic decided to start taking illegal performance-enhancing steroids. That year, Jeremy's tight-end contribution to the Jets was outstanding, and the Jets soared to first-place in their division and reached the AFC Championship game but then lost to the New England Patriots. Jeremy resolved to help his team reach the Super Bowl the following year, but something inside him was changing. His use of steroids was not merely enhancing his physical strength/prowess/endurance but it was also 'elevating' his mind/consciousness. Jeremy started believing he was the Marvel Comics superhuman named Colossus, a brute who typified both might and intuition...
Jeremy married a beautiful woman named Eleanor who was an Italian-American who also studied at USC. Eleanor trusted Jeremy and he confided in her. He loved her greatly, and his NFL friends were rather impressed with how gorgeous she looked with him. Jeremy took her to all the NFL dinner-parties and social gatherings, and she gained the reputation of being one of the coolest NFL wives in the league that year! Eleanor had a strange secret, however. When Jeremy was at his NFL games, playing for the Jets, Eleanor would be in the basement of the mansion she and Jeremy shared, making perfumes with chemicals and potions and flowers and spices. Eleanor would make experimental perfumes and then wear them and sometimes even make love to Jeremy with the perfumes augmenting her sensuality(!). Jeremy sometimes wondered where his wife acquired such 'exotic scents,' but he didn't mind them at all. Eleanor was using the perfumes, oddly enough, to invoke the spirits of immortality (so she would feel like a cheerleading witch for her NFL husband). Eleanor realized she was becoming a witch!
Jeremy decided to buy an incredible castle-like mansion in Switzerland two years later when his Jets won the Super Bowl, defeating the Philadelphia Eagles 39-33. Jeremy and Eleanor vacationed in the mansion after the Pro Bowl. Jeremy was now 26 years-old, and Eleanor was 24 years-old. They were living a fairy-tale life. However, Jeremy was still using illegal performance-enhancing steroids, and Eleanor was still concocting strange and exotic perfumes in the basement of their New York mansion. Jeremy named his castle-like 'vacation-mansion' in Switzerland the White Abode, and Eleanor was really in love with it. Jeremy thought he had it all. However, one day, while vacationing in the White Abode (just two more years later), Eleanor confided in Jeremy that she was now a practicing-witch. Jeremy decided to confess to Eleanor likewise that he was using performance-enhancing steroids to help the Jets win games. Jeremy and Eleanor realized they had become 'pawns of vanity.' What would be their fate?
Jeremy decided he would rather play honestly and cleanly so he stopped taking steroids and worked out and trained harder, much harder, so he could still comparably contribute to his winning Jets. His team continued to do well, reaching the AFC Championship game again the following year. Jeremy was nominated for the NFL MVP that season, and Eleanor decided to stop experimenting with perfume-concoctions and witchcraft. Jeremy and Eleanor decided to 'revamp' their commitment to their Catholic faith, going more often to Church and Sunday Mass. Prior to the AFC Championship game that year, Jeremy told Eleanor that if the Jets did not win, he would still love Eleanor and treasure his career with the Jets, and Eleanor likewise told her husband that she was 'relieved' to leave witchcraft behind her. Jeremy and Eleanor decided to sell their White Abode castle-like vacation-mansion in Switzerland. They always wondered, however, if the White Abode harboured the 'ghosts' of candidness (forever)...
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Cheers,
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Jeremy was a professional football player. He played as a tight-end for the USC Trojans before being drafted by the New York Jets in 2019. Jeremy's hero/idol was the New York Giants tight-end Mark Bavaro whom he thought was the ideal team-contributing 'strong-guy tight-end.' Jeremy's first year with the Jets was difficult even though he was a Heisman-contender with the Trojans. However, in his second year with the Jets, his team was really doing well, and Jeremy was excited to contribute. He was still having difficulty and in a panic decided to start taking illegal performance-enhancing steroids. That year, Jeremy's tight-end contribution to the Jets was outstanding, and the Jets soared to first-place in their division and reached the AFC Championship game but then lost to the New England Patriots. Jeremy resolved to help his team reach the Super Bowl the following year, but something inside him was changing. His use of steroids was not merely enhancing his physical strength/prowess/endurance but it was also 'elevating' his mind/consciousness. Jeremy started believing he was the Marvel Comics superhuman named Colossus, a brute who typified both might and intuition...
Jeremy married a beautiful woman named Eleanor who was an Italian-American who also studied at USC. Eleanor trusted Jeremy and he confided in her. He loved her greatly, and his NFL friends were rather impressed with how gorgeous she looked with him. Jeremy took her to all the NFL dinner-parties and social gatherings, and she gained the reputation of being one of the coolest NFL wives in the league that year! Eleanor had a strange secret, however. When Jeremy was at his NFL games, playing for the Jets, Eleanor would be in the basement of the mansion she and Jeremy shared, making perfumes with chemicals and potions and flowers and spices. Eleanor would make experimental perfumes and then wear them and sometimes even make love to Jeremy with the perfumes augmenting her sensuality(!). Jeremy sometimes wondered where his wife acquired such 'exotic scents,' but he didn't mind them at all. Eleanor was using the perfumes, oddly enough, to invoke the spirits of immortality (so she would feel like a cheerleading witch for her NFL husband). Eleanor realized she was becoming a witch!
Jeremy decided to buy an incredible castle-like mansion in Switzerland two years later when his Jets won the Super Bowl, defeating the Philadelphia Eagles 39-33. Jeremy and Eleanor vacationed in the mansion after the Pro Bowl. Jeremy was now 26 years-old, and Eleanor was 24 years-old. They were living a fairy-tale life. However, Jeremy was still using illegal performance-enhancing steroids, and Eleanor was still concocting strange and exotic perfumes in the basement of their New York mansion. Jeremy named his castle-like 'vacation-mansion' in Switzerland the White Abode, and Eleanor was really in love with it. Jeremy thought he had it all. However, one day, while vacationing in the White Abode (just two more years later), Eleanor confided in Jeremy that she was now a practicing-witch. Jeremy decided to confess to Eleanor likewise that he was using performance-enhancing steroids to help the Jets win games. Jeremy and Eleanor realized they had become 'pawns of vanity.' What would be their fate?
Jeremy decided he would rather play honestly and cleanly so he stopped taking steroids and worked out and trained harder, much harder, so he could still comparably contribute to his winning Jets. His team continued to do well, reaching the AFC Championship game again the following year. Jeremy was nominated for the NFL MVP that season, and Eleanor decided to stop experimenting with perfume-concoctions and witchcraft. Jeremy and Eleanor decided to 'revamp' their commitment to their Catholic faith, going more often to Church and Sunday Mass. Prior to the AFC Championship game that year, Jeremy told Eleanor that if the Jets did not win, he would still love Eleanor and treasure his career with the Jets, and Eleanor likewise told her husband that she was 'relieved' to leave witchcraft behind her. Jeremy and Eleanor decided to sell their White Abode castle-like vacation-mansion in Switzerland. They always wondered, however, if the White Abode harboured the 'ghosts' of candidness (forever)...
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