![]() After witnessing a number of strange events?Edwart leaves his tater tots untouched at lunch! Edwart saves her from a flying snowball!?Belle has a dramatic revelation: Edwart is a vampire. ![]() She soon discovers Edwart, a super-hot computer nerd with zero interest in girls. Pale and klutzy, Belle arrives in Switchblade, Oregon looking for adventure, or at least an undead classmate. And thus Belle Goose falls in love with the mysterious and sparkly Edwart Mullen in the Harvard Lampoon?s hilarious send-up of Twilight. And third, I unconditionally, irrevocably, impenetrably, heterogeneously, gynecologically, and disreputably wished he had kissed me. Second, there was a vampire part of him?which I assumed was wildly out of his control?that wanted me dead. First, Edwart was most likely my soul mate, maybe. About three things I was absolutely certain. ![]()
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