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Ellisrsp t1_ja09ja6 wrote

Fastball- The Way

>Fastball frontman Tony Scalzo came up with the idea for the song after reading articles that described the June 1997 disappearance of an elderly married couple, Lela and Raymond Howard from Salado, Texas,[5] who left home to attend the Pioneer Day festival at nearby Temple, Texas, despite Lela's Alzheimer's and Raymond recently recovering from brain surgery. They were discovered two weeks later, dead, at the bottom of a ravine near Hot Springs, Arkansas, hundreds of miles off their intended route.

I'm currently caring for an elderly parent in the early stages of mental decline. When I was younger, I thought this song was cool. It still is but now I can't listen to it.

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