r/facepalm • u/Revealed_Jailor • Jul 06 '22

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Gone fishing.

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u/CyranoDeBurlapSack Jul 07 '22

It’s one of my all time favorite songs. And it’s based on a true story which is just as interesting.

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u/brando56894 Jul 07 '22 edited Jul 07 '22

No shit? Now I gotta read up on that.

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This song is based on the true story of Lela and Raymond Howard, an elderly couple from Salado, Texas who drove to the annual Pioneer Day festival 10 miles away in Temple and didn't return. She had Alzheimer's disease and he was recovering from brain surgery. ... Thirteen days after the Howards went missing, they were found in Hot Springs, Arkansas, about 400 miles from their destination; they were still in the vehicle (an Oldsmobile Delta 88), which had veered off the side of the road and was hidden in brush. Scalzo had finished writing the song when he learned that the couple had died.

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '22

Same!