When Stargirl is interviewed on Hot Seat, the student “jury” panel, led by Stargirl’s meanest detractor, Hillari Kimble, turns hostile. Suddenly, Stargirl’s overenthusiastic, goofy cheering becomes threatening: she starts offering cheers for the opposing teams. Things change as the Mica High Electrons make the state basketball playoffs. Leo looks back on this time as a “golden age” that wasn’t to last long. School spirit grows alongside the outburst of nonconformity. Inspired by Stargirl’s kindness, kids start acknowledging and celebrating one another, and they express their individuality more in their dress, activities, and opinions.
Both boys and girls-shy, popular, athletic, and nerdy kids alike-are drawn to her. Archie admits that Stargirl is very different, but that he believes she’s closer to “who we really are.” He tells the boys that they’ll know Stargirl “more by your questions than by her answers.” By December, Stargirl has become the most popular kid in school.
Leo and Kevin ask the advice of Archie Brubaker, a retired paleontologist who mentors the kids of Mica. Soon after, the head cheerleader invites Stargirl to join the squad.
Leo, however, decides there’s something wonderfully real about her, though he can’t pinpoint what it is.Ī few weeks later, Stargirl shows up at the Mica High football game and thrills the normally dull crowd by dancing around the field. Mica High is “not exactly a hotbed of nonconformity,” and Stargirl’s ways continue to baffle the other kids. Stargirl also brings her pet rat, Cinnamon, to school and has an unsettling habit of greeting strangers in the hallways. Over the coming days, Stargirl’s strange outfits-and her habit of serenading kids in the lunchroom-lead to speculations that she’s a fake.
ENDING OF LOVE STARGIRL TV
They make plans to interview Stargirl on Hot Seat, the student TV show they co-created. Leo’s best friend, Kevin, tells him that Stargirl was homeschooled until recently. Stargirl wears flowing dresses and carries a ukulele on her back. On Leo’s first day of 11th grade, all of Mica High is whispering about a new 10th-grade girl named Stargirl Caraway. A few days later, Leo receives a package containing another porcupine necktie. His collection is mentioned in a small newspaper feature on Leo’s 14th birthday. As a newcomer to Mica, Arizona, Leo decided to start a porcupine necktie collection. Over the next 30 years, Ruth cared for over 1,000 people and buried more than 40 on her family's plot most of whom were gay men whose families would not claim their ashes.įor this, Ruth has been nicknamed the 'Cemetery Angel'.When Leo Borlock was a little boy, his uncle gave him a porcupine necktie. If it hadn't been for the drag queens, I don't know what we would have done", Ruth said. That's how we'd buy medicine, that's how we'd pay rent. Ruth’s work soon became well known in the city and she received financial assistance from gay bars, "They would twirl up a drag show on Saturday night and here'd come the money. She would take them to appointments, obtain medications, apply for assistance, and even kept supplies of AIDS medications on hand, as some pharmacies would not carry them. Ruth pulled a chair to his bedside, talked to himĪnd held his hand until he died 13 hours later.Īfter finally finding a funeral home that would his body, and paying for the cremation out of her own savings, Ruth buried his ashes on her family's large plot.Īfter this first encounter, Ruth cared for other patients. And what was I going to do? So I took his hand. I knew you’d come", and then he lifted his hand. “I went back in his room and when I walked in, he said, "Oh, momma. Ruth called his mother anyway, who refused to come visit her son, who she described as a "sinner" and already dead to her, and that she wouldn't even claim his body when he died. She left the room and told the nurses, who said, "Honey, his mother’s not coming. In the bed was a skeletal young man, who told Ruth he wanted to see his mother before he died. On a repeat visit, and seeing the big red bag on the door, Ruth decided to disregard the warnings and sneaked into the room. She asked why and the nurses told her the patient had AIDS. “In 1984, when Ruth Coker Burks was 25 and a young mother living in Arkansas, she would often visit a hospital to care for a friend with cancer.ĭuring one visit, Ruth noticed the nurses would draw straws, afraid to go into one room, its door sealed by a big red bag.
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