Alternate Reality

     The beginning of this story takes place sometime in the summer of 1984. I was not yet a freshman in highschool, but would soon be. Nothing unusual happened during the course of the summer. Just the same old boring "out of school vacation". I would spend alot of my nights listening to my radio in the wee hours of the morning. Just daydreaming about whatever popped into my head. It was a common event for me to listen to the radio for hours on end, sometimes up to five hours at a time. So one night I'm listening to the radio and I hear the radio announcer come on, he says something to the effect, "This year Prince will be coming out with a movie titled Under the Cherry Moon, so look for it in theaters near you." I really wasn't into prince then so it was just a passing occurence, nothing worthy of making note of; Or so I thought.
     Finally the summer ended and my first year of highschool begins. I'm in my english class and the room is somewhat silent. Students have their noses to the books doing a "preview quiz", once in awhile a low chatter could be heard. My mind wonders off to my lazy days of summer, and then it hits me. I blurt out, "Hey, I heard Prince is going to be coming out with a movie, It's gonna be called Under the Cherry Moon". I was talking to my buddy sitting next to me and a student in front of us just turns around, but has a look of annoyance. Apparently not impressed with the news. Whats  bizzare is my bud is really not impressed either. He really doesn't have any kind of reaction to my remark. I think back on it now and it was as if maybe he didn't believe me. Maybe he thought I was just trying to start a rumor.Theres really nothing more I have on this memory. Thats pretty much it, except that several months later a movie comes out. The star of the movie is the artist formerly known as "Prince", and the movie is called "Purple Rain".
     Whats really weird about this experience is that no one else had "heard" about the fact that Prince was going to be making a movie. Nobody came up to me saying, "Hey are you going to go watch Under the Cherry Moon, when it comes out?". This is the first experience I had that seemed to be "Normal", until several years later. Upon further reflection, things just didn't seem right, or things didn't "add up". No one validated the fact that Prince was coming out with the movie, also I've never heard anything about Prince changing the name from Under the Cherry Moon, to Purple Rain. Thats the only piece of information that I have that proves my experience. The name "Under the Cherry Moon". I believe Prince has the answer...