The Ani DiFranco song 4th of July, which tells the story of a child she met while driving through Iowa, contains the following lyric:
He says his name is JasonThis song is from Ani's 1993 album Puddle Dive, which means that, if Jason is real, he was at least 6 years old in 1993.
He lives in the last trailer on the right
And he'll be seven
On the fourth of July
That means he's at least 29 years old now. And every time this song comes up in my playlist, I wonder what happened to him.
Does he still live in the trailer park? Did he get married? Did he have children? Did he join the military and get PTSDed in Iraq? Did he go to university and become a professor of comparative literature? Has he ever heard this song? Does he know it's about him?
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