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Hello, this is the second part of the interview with a past pupil of Columbine as it was highly requested. 🙂

Q: 

did E&D sit alone together at lunch? Didn’t any girls want to date them? Does she ever see E&D’s family around town? What is the most misunderstood thing about Columbine in general? (Submitted by anonymous)

A: Sometimes when I went to the cafeteria, I would see Eric, in particular, on his own. Dylan usually would be wandering the school doing stuff or on the computers. Not to mention, Eric would probably go and find him ten minutes after being on his own.

Not many girls talked to them, Dylan tended to shy away from those kinds of situations and change topic. Eric on the other hand, I never really saw him with girls. But on the rare occasion when I did, he’d be really nice to them.

I don’t see any of their families as I moved out of Littleton. I did see the Klebold’s but that was before the massacre.

The most misunderstood thing about Columbine? Well, in my opinion, Eric and Dylan were teenagers like everyone else in the school. People forget that. They were picked on, and people look past it because once someone says “Oh yeah, these kids were bullied”, it’s as if they are blaming themselves for not stopping the bullying, yet they don’t want to blame themselves. They want to blame Eric and Dylan, which is only partially correct. They should be completely held accountable for what they did (I am, in no way, sticking up for their actions), but people who don’t understand that these two kids found it easier to shoot people to express their rage rather than opening up says a lot about the school system and how mental health is seen nowadays. I think that’s the most misunderstood thing.

Q: 

will you ask her if they ever mentioned their pets/animals? (Submitted by anonymous)

A: Eric mentioned animals so many times, I could probably write a book. He really loved animals, and this many seem strange, but I honestly only really remember him talking about animals to this day. 
Dylan didn’t really talk about his pets. But, you could tell some days before he left for school he probably picked up his cats and there would hairs all over his shirt.

Q: 

who she thought Dylan reminded her of? (Submitted by everlasting-contrast) 

A: Dylan didn’t remind me of anyone in particular but I sure felt he belonged to the 60′s era. He was that type of guy. Or maybe it was his sunglasses. 

Q: 

did she go to the smokers pit with him and chat?

(Submitted by everlasting-contrast​)

A: No, I don’t smoke so I basically avoided that area. I usually talked to him in the school or the parking lot. 

Q: 

Did he have any distinct habits and indiosyncrasies that she noticed about him?

Did he say certain phrases a lot, did he swear regularly in conversation?

(Submitted by everlasting-contrast​)

A: He always ran his fingers through his hair. It’s just something he’d always do when talking or when he got shy. He did it constantly. 
I remember when I first started talking to him, he swore and went all red, constant ‘sorry, I didn’t mean to swear’ in between sentences. But after a while, he didn’t care anymore. It was usually ‘fucking this, fucking that’ and so on.

Q: 

Does she have any particular interaction between her and him that stands out the most in her mind?

(Submitted by everlasting-contrast​)

A: An interaction that stands out the most is probably when Dylan was eating something, I have no idea what, and ketchup dripped all over his face. He cracked up and everyone didn’t find it as funny as him, but his laugh was contagious, so in no time, everyone was laughing with him.

Q: 

Did she genuinely like him and think him a nice guy or just kinda ‘meh, he’s ok.’

(Submitted by everlasting-contrast​)

A: I genuinely liked him and he was a nice guy. I could turn to him if I ever got stressed out or needed help. He was a great listener. 

Q: 

did Dylan bash jocks or complain about the school within ear shot of her?   Did she ever see him drinking?  Did she ever see him working sound in the theater?  Did she have one or a couple one-on-one conversation with him and if so, what about?  Where did they end up congregating and interacting most of the time – the commons?

(Submitted by everlasting-contrast​) 

A: Only once, if I can remember he bashed the jocks. He complained that they always thought they were superior to everyone else and he didn’t like that. He wanted everyone to be treated equally for a school to function properly.    

I never saw him drinking but I remember one morning he came to school and I could smell vodka off of him, he was slightly hungover. Even more clumsy than usual too.

I did go to the theater a couple of times (mainly when my period had ended or it was lunch). Dylan was always tangling wires together (also tripping on some too) and taking orders from others. 

I had a lot of one-on-one conversations with Dylan, I can’t remember all of them but they would be normally about his very intelligent views on society, unfairness of the world, love, young people, school system failure. Many, many things that he was so well educated on, but was frightening he knew so much when he was so young.

We mostly talked in the cafeteria. Or class when the teacher was late.

Thanks for asking/posting today. Made my Sunday evening. 🙂 Surprised only one other person asked questions beside myself – really? Highlights for me..

“..you could tell some days before he left for school he probably picked up his cats and there would hairs all over his shirt. lol

“Dylan didn’t remind me of anyone in particular but I sure felt he belonged to the 60′s era. He was that type of guy. Or maybe it was his sunglasses.” 😉

“Many, many things that he was so well educated on, but was frightening he knew so much when he was so young.”  
She can not recall any little bit on conversations regarding love, society and views on society?  Hmm.. Well, I know something would’ve stuck with me.