Yes, they get that. They receive all kinds of mail. Sue has said she goes through all of it. You can imagine some of the more uh, passionate, unrestraint fannish mail they also receive amidst the respectful, thoughtful sort. It’s disconcerting and wistful for them that the mail is from young girls crushing on him. Their son is an infamous killer permanently immortalized in American history and some ‘fans’ do remind them in the intensity of their fascination that he has acquired a taboo sort of celebrity status. I’m sure it will always be weird for them; they’ll never quite be comfortable nor own it. The irony will always be that had Dylan lived to 34 present day and had been the successful son they could’ve been proud of fully, he never would’ve receive one piece of fan mail over him or a bunch of young groupies crushing on him for that matter. And yet, they still somehow..get it – that we’re all just as haunted by Dylan and yearning for what could have been as much as they are.

Sue is always gracious with those that have reached out to her with an earnest letter or lovingily crafted artwork but I’m sure they’re also a bit ambivalent and tentative about it at the same time. I’m sure they know people want to express their feelings, that they care about them and their loss and that they also care and spend a great deal of time considering their infamous son. They’d have lapses where they’d feel a twinge of pride and appreciativeness in one minute simultaneously followed by a mix of sinking feelings and sadness as to precisely why their son is receiving the attention from us. It’s because he is known by the world for the horrible act he’d done. It’s a permanent disgrace as a parent. Dylan is not really a role model by any means that a parent can fully own a swell of pride over that most parents are luckily allowed to do liberally and without remorse for it but they somehow do get the sense that Dylan’s tragic, grave mistake is meaningful to people by the consistent random acts of kindness and attention they receive from people reaching out to them all the time. People care; people can be non judgmental and so I do think Tom and Sue do get that message.

I believe that the author, Andrew Solomon, who interviewed both Sue and Tom a couple of years ago for his book ‘Far from the Tree’ sort of convinced them – most especially Sue, that the public truly wants to know about her son and who he was as a person and to understand him fully and to know exactly how it was for her in raising him from a sweet little baby to a young man with so much promise, so much good within him amidst his secret dark struggles. We care and I think she gets that enough now to not guard closely and conceal any longer. This is the time, more than ever, to talk about Dylan. I think Tom and Sue will feel an enormous sense of relief when the book comes out and a bit surprised that they don’t have to remain cloaked in a blanket of shame and fear until their dying days. The flood gates will open and it will be a time of enlightenment. It will be a chance to make Dylan’s atrocity and his death not in vain. His story will help other parents see potential signs and possibly prevent future tragedies that would echoe in his footsteps. Pandora’s Box will be opened full blast and there will be haters, yes, but that’s nothing new for the Klebolds over the many painful, agonizing years of weathering the slings and arrows while trying to, somehow, heal but the flip side of that is that they will also feel an overwhelming amount of love and compassion from many people (people that were their haters before but not any longer) wanting to know and understand their story and to comprehend their son in depth and not just as ‘that Columbine monster’.

They know he has groupies but I don’t know so much about them being aware of or visiting this dark side of the Tumblr tag. I tend not to think so.

I’m not sure if ‘happy’ is the right word. More like..relieved.

Thanksss for the loveeeee. 😘😎

Aww, thank you so much! ☺️Always means a lot to hear. 💗🙏🏻

He wasn’t really. Eric was obsessively hygienic which by contrast, made Dyl’s more relaxed, casual sense of hygiene seem more like a dirty hippy. 😏 ✌🏻️🍄

That’s because he really wasn’t sneering.  Dyl has two deep groove lines on either sides of his nostrils. When he’s not quite in the middle of a full-on smile these nostril lines give off the appearance that he’s sneering. And let’s be honest here: what teenage boy wants to flash a fake-happy smile for a school permit card and while wearing an edgy serial killer shirt no less. 😉   

Your guess is as good as mine?   My guess would be that unlike Eric, Dyl did bother to wash his hands after 4/20 prep so he’d be in flawless deathly repose. 😉 

For the most part, Eric was more hygienic than Dyl though there are always exception to every rule.. 😉

6 foot 3 feet high. 😏✌🏻️🌵

I already answered when I thought he got his Trench-duster about 10 posts or so down. I mentioned that his parents bought it for him very likely for his Oct ‘97 bday. For that matter, they probably also bought him his regular trench coat especially since it was leather. Dyl was not really making the big bucks on his own working part time at Blackjack as well as odd jobs off and on in ‘98.

*gasps* Nyet, nein, nee, non, nooo.

Ok, I’ll concede a bit to Jay Leno’s chin/jawline much more than Lennon. 😉

No, I don’t see those sorts of strict traditional morals being a strong enough influencing factor to dissuade him from fully loving his girlfriend in every way possible long before marriage might’ve entered into the picture. His sense of purity would be more along the lines of being true to his girl, faithful, devotional and monogamous, yes, but not to the point of abstaining until religiously united on a piece of paper. He wasn’t big on conventional religion and values anyway. Plus, I don’t believe he thought marriage would ever really be something in the cards for him. The purity of honest, true love was more important than anything marriage could officially validate for him to give him permission to physically express love to her.

Well, first of all, drawing parallels to Dylan and Elliot and in the same sentence kind of unnerves and baffles me – and, well, kind of offends me? 😬 Very different physical attributes – we’re talking Dr. Peppers to Vanilla Lattes here. Secondly, the answer is that no one can acquire the trademark chin and jawline evolution bestowed upon Dylan Klebold. It’s simply one of a kind.😏

That’s understandable given the situation you’d just experienced. I’m sorry you that it was so close to home for you and I hope your sister and her friends and classmates are okay. It sucks all the way around, and I can fully appreciate your situation more in fully knowing why you came at me like that. But it’s wise of you to take a step back and to see the bigger picture in your admitting that though your immediate reaction is to fear and feel a knee-jerk disapproval, you still can appreciate that their is a need to spend time focusing on shooters in an attempt to gain some understanding and perspective on how they could choose such actions as a desperate solution to their personal problems. 😊 So, thanks for being a bigger person in your realization. 💗

The pseudo ‘trench coat’ that Dyl wore regularly to school was his TCM duster ( aka to you, the ‘crappy one’ haha.)   His genuine leather trench coat was not his school uniform coat that people identified him with.  Tom knew Dyl took the duster to school and wore it almost daily over jeans and a t-shirt. So, the TCM Trench, er, Duster was the coat he was looking for to try to rule out his son being involved in the attack on 4/20. 

Not sure which you referring to in regards to Amazon: that Sue is narrating the audio book or whether you mean she is writing the book from her own PoV.   It would make the most logical sense that she’d be writing the book first person, from her own perspective, as it’s her story to tell and no one else could do it justice.  So, if you meant that, yes, your heart will, in fact, never beat the same way again!  😉   Let’s not forget the possibility of new Dylan photos too. That just might actually stop your heart beat altogether. 🙂 

No, they’re still together.