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Aug 5, 2024, 9:47:27 AM8/5/24

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thatsame beloved grandfather passed suddenly and tragically in the middle of a snowstorm, while on vacation.

when my nona returned from the hospital devastated and shocked, a young buck passed right in front of her car as she pulled into the driveway. for the longest and briefest of moments he paused and faced her directly. long enough for her to see my grandfather in his eyes and feel him saying goodbye.

my grandfather was that buck.

this gave her great solace and she asked me to include a buck in the design of his memorial card.

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"Wild at Heart" is the sixth episode of the fourth season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the sixty-second episode in the series. Written by Marti Noxon and directed by David Grossman, it was originally broadcast on November 9, 1999, on The WB network.

Buffy is chased by a vampire, which she fights and then stakes. Her well-thought puns are not appreciated. Spike watches from a distance and promises trouble, but he is struck by tasers and carried off by the masked and heavily armed people lurking in the Sunnydale shadows.

In the Bronze, the Scooby Gang talk about college and why they're still hanging at the Bronze. To their surprise, Giles joins them. Veruca's band, Shy, starts to play and all the guys are mesmerized by her singing, which distresses Willow.

The next morning, Willow wakes up in Oz's bed and they talk about how they'll be apart for three nights while there's a full moon keeping Oz locked up, and a Wicca group is meeting on those three nights. In class, Buffy gets a great grade on a psychology paper and Professor Walsh asks her to lead a discussion group on the topic. Willow is excited for feeling academically envious of Buffy.

Veruca invites Oz to sit with her at lunch, which he accepts since there is room for Willow and they start talking amps. Willow arrives and is lost by their terminology. Veruca and Oz leave, and Buffy arrives. She tells Willow not to worry about Oz.

That night, Oz locks himself into a cage in a crypt, but the door isn't secure enough and he breaks free. As Professor Walsh is leaving the school that night, Oz jumps out at her. Another werewolf appears and while Professor Walsh runs and hides in the bushes, the two werewolves jump out and fight with each other. Oz wakes up the next morning to see that the other werewolf is Veruca. They sneak into the campus laundry room for clothes and Veruca appeals to the animal within him. Willow shows up at Oz's and instead of being welcomed with opened arms, Oz is closed off and so she leaves. Buffy informs Giles of the two werewolves being spotted on campus and later goes to Oz in the crypt. She finds him welding the door and asks if he got out, then mentions another werewolf. He tells her he did, but he says he doesn't remember anything about what happened when he got out.

Oz arranges for Veruca to meet him in the crypt that night. He wants her to lock her in the cage with him so no one will get hurt. Veruca initially refuses, telling them they should be running free. Eventually, Oz loses the fight against his feelings and drags her into the cage and starts kissing her as they transform.

The next morning, breakfast in hand, Willow arrives and is shocked to see Oz and Veruca curled up naked together. Oz gets dressed and orders Veruca out. He then tries to explain things to Willow, but she doesn't want to hear it. She accuses him of choosing a solution that involved him and Veruca locked up together rather than him telling someone what was happening. Oz tells her he knows how it feels, and she asks if this is supposed to be payback. He tells her it isn't, but Willow questions about whether he wanted Veruca in an animal way before he knew she was a werewolf. Oz remains silent and Willow runs out crying.

Walking home distraught, Willow walks in front of an oncoming car, which Buffy can't save her from, but Riley happens to be there and does. Riley tells Willow that he doesn't know what happened, but it's not worth hurting herself over. Riley then suggests Buffy take her home. Buffy agrees and takes Willow back to their dorm, where Willow tells the whole story. Before she leaves to find Veruca, she tells Willow that Riley was right and she shouldn't hurt herself. She tells Willow to put the blame where it belongs. Buffy then leaves, determined to take care of Veruca.

Willow repeats Buffy's statement about putting the blame where it belongs and goes and opens her trunk full of magic ingredients. Buffy goes to Oz's room and asks him where Veruca is, but he tells her he doesn't know. He points out that he does know all the usual haunts, so he's pretty sure he can follow her scent. When Oz tries to explain what happened, Buffy says it might be a good time for his "trademark stoicism." She chastises him for not only hurting Willow, but for lying about knowing who the other werewolf was. Using Oz's heightened senses to lead the way, Buffy and Oz find Veruca's clothes. They realize this is just a diversion and come to the conclusion that she's gone after Willow. Buffy and Oz quickly rush back to the college, but Buffy runs into a commando. The two briefly scuffle, but Buffy grabs her tranquilizer gun and leaves.

Willow is in one of the campus labs, conjuring a spell clamoring "deceitful hearts be broken." She takes a picture of Oz and put it in the spell pot, but she can't bring herself to complete it. Everything she has levitating suddenly smashes down and the fire goes out. She turns around when she hears Veruca say that she thought for a minute that Willow actually played dirty, but she knew Willow was "too weak" to actually finish the spell. Veruca locks the lab's door and tells Willow that she's going to kill her when the sun goes down. That way Willow can't stand between her and Oz anymore.

Just in time for their werewolf transformation, Oz breaks in and warns Veruca not to hurt Willow. Veruca refuses, believing Willow is stopping Oz from fully embracing his wolf side. She then tells Oz that they're animals at heart, and Oz agrees that they're animals and they kill. At this point, he attacks Veruca, still not completely changed. The two soon completely transform and continue the fight. Oz kills Veruca by ripping her throat out. The wolf then turns its attention to Willow, and she calls him by his name. The wolf leaps in to attack Willow, only for Buffy to stopped him at the last second. She finally tranquilizes him and then comforts a crying Willow.

The next day, Buffy tells Giles about the heavily armed man she saw while searching for Veruca, who was dressed the same way as the men she saw on Halloween. She says that, because of him, she was too late to stop Oz from killing Veruca and almost wasn't able to stop Oz from killing Willow. Although they know that this is serious, both are far more concerned about Willow and Oz, and Buffy can't imagine how they're going to get through this.

Willow finds Oz in his room, packing. Unsure of what separates him from the wolf, he is leaving until he can figure it out. Oz tells Willow she is the only one he has ever loved and they hug. As Willow cries alone, Oz walks out, starts up his van, and drives away.

In elementary school, however, we kids were not making an ontological study of late-twentieth-century middle-class American life. We were neither learning about capitalism nor reading Whitman. We were learning how to be human. We were learning the exact way in which, though we were animals, we should not look or act like animals. To call someone an animal was an insult. As my peers and I approached puberty, this was unfortunate, because I had trouble keeping track of the narrative. I was covered in scabs and bruises. I was sun-browned, full of sighs, and interested in every orifice. I was an animal.

At the end of fourth grade, my body mutinously exploded, flesh swelling from my chest and thighs before it happened to anyone else my age. I was enormous, I thought, Alice after drinking the wrong potion, busting through the house of what a girl should be. Girls were not supposed to be enormous. They were not supposed to be scabby and strong. Inexplicably, strong and big were what every animal wanted to be except us.

One day, we lay on a blanket in the grass of her backyard. The trees hummed with insects, the air hazy with pollen. I read a novel, peering over it occasionally to watch her dip a paintbrush in a slick of watercolor and drag it along her sketchpad, the wet tip like a tiny black tongue, streaking the white with purple.

Sometimes you touch me more like a bear than a butterfly, read one line. I froze, understanding that despite all of my efforts at control, she had seen my wildness. Shame shot through me in hot streaks.

I knew exactly what she meant, but I had no words to name it. My knowing was from a time before I knew such experience was speakable, when all I knew was that deep well inside me, the channel that connected everything to the pulse of my own wild heart.