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What Stand by Me boy are you?


Girls feel free to answer too.

I would say I am the Gordie of the group. I was the shy, bookish one and my siblings and cousins were the popular, sporty etc type. I was always compared to my relatives.

I saw this film for the first time when I was 14 and identified with Gordie, even now 10 years later Gordie still reminds me of myself.

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I would be most like Chris, a natural leader and an all around tough guy with a bit of a rocky past. I am not like Chris, however, in the sense that I don't get involved in stuff Im not supposed to get involved in, such as when Chris tried to break up an argument in a restaurant which led to his demise.

And my name in real life also happens to be Chris BTW.

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Another Gordie here! I used to fill up notebooks with stories, poems and a magazine that I created. I was the editor and all the columnists. ha But thankfully, I did not have the bad relationship with my parents that Gordie did.

I was somewhat like Chris too, kind of mature for my age. That was probably because I was the oldest and I had to watch my younger siblings a lot.

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Gordie through and through, minus the writing skills.

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Vern because of my learning disability and me being a lot different than the others

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I'm Gordie definitely.

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Ace! Joking I was more like Teddy because of skeletons in my closet but I would like to say I'm not ending up as the adult Teddy.

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As a child I was definitely Chris.

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I am so Gordie, always have been. I would love to be Chris, and I have had many friends like him or Teddy and definitely some Verns. I am a storyteller, a brooder, and I perhaps had the best friends I ever had when I was twelve. The only obvious difference would be I am gay, so I guess I a gay Gordie (some might argue a regular Gordie)

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I've always been a mix between Gordie and Chris. I was advanced in school and often the peacemaker of a group.

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I'm a Gordie.

My father passed when I was 12yrs old, & that was 1990 when this movie was still pretty fresh.
It was one of my favs before that time, & as I aged it eventually became my #1 of all time.

The last line of the movie, as well as the 3 best friends I grew up with near mimicking Gordie's (an athlete, a jokester, & a guy 2yrs younger than us- all of whom grew apart as we aged ourselves), has always been awesomely precise.
I honestly have never read a more accurate sentence my entire life.

I still feel like Gordie sometimes, unsure of the future even as I'm an adult. That sounds weird yet I know I'm not alone there.

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I still feel like Gordie sometimes, unsure of the future even as I'm an adult. That sounds weird yet I know I'm not alone there.


No you're definitely not alone. Actually it doesn't sound weird at all. One of my favorite lines of the movie was at the beginning with the narration saying that it happenned in 1959 "a long time ago, but only if you measure in terms of years"

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I was Vern.

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I'd like to say a combination of all of them. I was never into sports, had a brother who was a really popular athlete, I enjoy reading and writing; so I'm Lachance in those ways. I came from an alcoholic family and I thought I was going to end up like them, and I was always kind of the peacekeeper in our group of friends; so Chris. As a preteen, I was overweight and was the but of a lot of jokes from my "friends"; Vern. Teddy......Well, not so much I guess. We all have our Teddy moments though.

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