I sometimes think of you in the quiet hours, Bill with his ledger and Ted with his grin, and I try to be braver. Sometimes I fail. Sometimes I surprise myself. Occasionally, someone new moves to the block and does not know the rules; when that happens, I tell them, simply: "If you want to know a secret about this place, ask Bill and Ted." They always look startled, then delighted, as if someone had handed them a map to a small country they'd always wanted to visit.
You moved through the neighborhood like people who had been given permission to redraw the lines. Kids playing hopscotch glanced up and learned, by osmosis, that the rules were optional. Mrs. Kline watered her dahlias in a different rhythm. A man walking two dogs nodded as if he'd been let in on a private joke. You had that effect—the sort of presence that rearranges small atoms of the world until they make a more complicated pattern. Dear Cousin Bill And Ted Pjk
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In Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey , the duo meets Station , the Martian genius who splits into two little geniuses to build the "Good Robot Us'es." In the lore, Station is technically the duo's greatest ally (a "cousin" in spirit). Occasionally, someone new moves to the block and