Walter Marino Used Buzz Lightyear Catchphrase With Son During Sea Ordeal
“Lost at sea with nothing to hold onto amid a dreadful darkness, Florida resident Walter Marino continually called out some of the few words his 12-year-old autistic son Christopher responds to. The pair, swept out in a late-afternoon current near Daytona Beach, had been treading water in shark- and jellyfish-infested waters throughout the night, slowly floating apart. ‘I’d be screaming, ‘To infinity … and beyond!’ ’ Marino said, referring to the Disney character Buzz Lightyear’s catchphrase in ‘Toy Story,’ one of Christopher’s favorite movies. ‘Then I would hear him and it would be more and more and more distant, until finally I couldn’t hear anything.’” [Link]
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