But, but milum, you're missing something; a bum leg, or a lazy eye or something.
Everybody knows that a kid from the wrong side 'o the tracks who's Mom-orphaned and drunk-Dadded, with no friends and hardly any education has to have a bum leg or lazy eye.
OH, that or a dream...they gotta have a dream like
a) becoming Pretty In Pink (oops no, that one's taken by Molly Ringwald)
b) becoming a ninja (oops no, Karate kid got that one and mom's there but not dad)
c) becoming a dancer (oops no, Keven Bacon got that one in Footloose - again mom's there, pop's not)
All right, they're all taken, Raymond has got to have a bum leg or lazy eye.
Oooo, wait, you could skip the whole bum leg, lazy eye imperative if you are the wise and all knowing teacher that'll set the kid on the straight path in life, teach him to have confidence in himself and believe in the strength within. Ah Dag nabbit, Yoda, I think that is.
