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The Death Of Skidmore And Boddlebrook

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Have you ever wondered how awful your life would be if you were allergic to bubble gum coming from a baseball family? There were these two brothers, Skidmore and Boddlebrook. Boddlebrook was a really famous baseball player and basically got everything that he wanted. There was no question that he was the star of the family and a huge sponser for bubblegum, most baseball players like bubblegum anyway but Boddlebrook was the absolute number one supporter. Their parents obviously loved both of them but you would think that Skidmore would be just a little jealous of his older brother. Boddlebrook had no idea that a silly little pretzel idea, made by his brother would be the death of him. Skidmore was jealous for sure but is he willing to go to …show more content…

There were multiple reasons as to why people believe that Skidmore killed his own brother. He was getting money for really doing nothing and he had a lot of it. He got a ton of attention from famous baseball players, he had a mansion, he had a bunch of toys that most people wouldn't even be able to afford. He was also a lovable fun guy. People knew that Skidmore was his brother but he didn't get nearly as much attenion as Boddlebrook. Jealousy was a major key in the murder of …show more content…

They don't seem like they have a sibling bond or love. Maybe thats what Skidmore needed, was love. Boddlebrook surrounded himself with bubblegum and it could've killed his brother at any given moment if he ate or drank the wrong thing, it didn't seem to phase him though. His intentions were to never hurt his younger brother but it very well could've ended up the other way than it actually did. Boddlebrook was very well aware at this fact and Skidmore knows this. When Skidmore gave his brother a bite of the new invention called the pretzel and he instantly turned purple and died it raised some red flags. Was it something in the pretgzel? Did he choke? Did he have a heartattack? It's suspicious that Skidmore was extremely jealous of everything about his brother and then he feeds him something that he was supposedly really excited about and then it turns out that the one thing that he feeds him instantly kills

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