“The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.”
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Here's a thing about the death of your mother, or anyone else you love: You can't anticipate how you'll feel afterward. People will tell you a few may be close to right, none exactly right.
A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I don't believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing.
For some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation.
Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.
