"Don't let anybody tell you they're better than you, Forrest," Mrs. We see young Forrest getting his brace stuck in a grate in the curb. His mother walks him out of the doctor's office, and we hear Forrest tell us in voiceover that his mother named him after the Civil War hero, General Nathan Bedford Forrest, who was the creator of the Ku Klux Klan. He wears leg braces that are meant to help correct a curved spine, and he wanders around the doctor's office awkwardly. We see a young Forrest looking down at his legs in a doctor's office. "I've worn lots of shoes," he says, before launching into a story about his first pair of shoes. He comments on her shoes and how comfortable they must be, and tells her that his mama always said that one could tell a lot about a person by their shoes. You never know what you're gonna get," he says, as she reads a magazine. "My mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. He introduces himself as Forrest Gump, and offers her a chocolate, but she ignores him. On his lap is a box of chocolates, and as the bus arrives, a woman comes and sits beside him. He picks up the feather and puts it into a book in his suitcase. Sitting at the bus stop is the titular character, Forrest Gump, a dim-witted but kind man wearing dirty sneakers. We see a white feather floating through the air down towards a bus stop in Savannah, Georgia.
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