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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I want to hear from a cat who got shot in the head.
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Not a cat, but a lovely, lovely kitten:
What It Feels Like to Get Shot in the Head
[By Laura Elena Harring, 37, actress, star of Mulholland Drive]
I'M TWELVE YEARS OLD at the time, and my mom and stepfather take me and my sisters to the movies in San Antonio. We're driving through the parking lot, and I'm craning my head out the window looking for the cinema. There are two cars behind us. Suddenly, one of them screeches off and someone in the other car starts shooting. We hear three loud bangs, but I only hear two because the second one hits me in the head. It feels like my head was hit with a rock from a slingshot. My stepfather yells, "They're gunshots! Get down!" and I say, "I think they hit me."
I immediately put my head down into my mother's lap. She grabs my white sweater and starts pressing down. And all I can hear is blub blub, blub blub from the blood running down my face. It's very warm. Everything is going part in slow motion, part in fast motion. There's this low-pitched ringing in my head-naaaaaaaa--and my mother is saying Hail Marys in Spanish.
My sister peeks over the seat and sees all the blood. She crinkles her face and opens her mouth like that painting The Scream. It's the scariest face I've ever seen. She lets out a shriek that gets my other sisters crying. That's when I think, I'm going to die.
At the hospital, I'm on a cart and my parents are above me running with the doctors. The coating of blood is so heavy and thick on my face that I can't open one eye or my mouth. I have long, dark hair, and they shave off half of it. They take X rays but can't find the bullet. Turns out the bullet hit the side of my head, then continued on to the rearview mirror. Later my stepfather found it crushed on the floorboard. The doctor said it missed my brain by a millimeter.
--AS TOLD TO BRYAN MEALE
She's healed nicely...
Even if Naomi Watts (who was the only one who could have played Betty/Diane in
Mulholland Drive) is bitter about it.
