Earl Swift and Tris Wykes write a story about a story: So this Harvard kid writes a book – a book of funny stories, all of them made up – and Random House makes plans to sell the book this April. And among the stories is one titled “My Mom’s All-Time, Top Five Greatest Boyfriends,” written from the perspective of an 11-year-old boy whose favorite minor-league hockey team happens to be the Norfolk Admirals.
And this story – which is fiction, remember – flips through the five boyfriends, revealing that all are Admirals’ players. It describes the boy requesting their autographs on souvenir Admirals’ pucks. By the end it’s pretty clear that mom is working her way through the team roster.
It’s a funny story.
And it has a funny twist: The names of the five fictional former boyfriends, they belong to real people. Real hockey players.
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