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After the bullying, in the weeks that follow,
Owen goes down to the basement.
It's odd. He seems like he's working on something downstairs.
I go down, and I see he's been drawing,
and then I sit down with the book, and I start flipping pages.
A hundred pages of pictures.
And every character is a sidekick.
There are no heroes. They're all sidekicks.
There are hundreds of them in Disney.
Some are goofy. Some are resourceful. Some are wise.
Merlin, Rafiki, Jiminy Cricket... They're all sidekicks.
At that point, I didn't feel like a hero. I felt like a sidekick.
The sidekicks are fun-loving, comical, wacky, playful,
friendly, and delightful,
and they help the hero fulfill their destiny,
and they support the heroes.
On the last two pages, in his scrawl,
I am the protector of the sidekicks,
and the last thing he writes, on the last page is,
No sidekick gets left behind.
I created a story about sidekicks searching for a hero in my head,
and I called it "The Land of the Lost Sidekicks."
The thing he did that I think was interesting
is that sort of using the narrative of his own life
to create these stories.
But the sidekicks were there to support him and...
And help him find his way.
He was really writing little autobiographies.
The Land of the Lost Sidekicks," by Owen Suskind.
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