Crying at the Movies: A Film Memoir History or whatever else helps you

or whatever else helps you release your worries

Sandor Iron Rope

the ten-year-old swears the bear had human eyes

the tart-tongued

She spies on the girls―and on the soldiers escorting them

Crying at the Movies: A Film Memoir History or whatever else helps you"For years, I cried, not over my own losses, but at the movies. When bad things happened to me in real life, I didn't react. I seemed cool or indifferent. Yet in the dark and relative safety of the movie theater, I would weep over fictional tragedies, over someone else's tragedy." At age nine, Madelon Sprengnether watched her father drown in the Mississippi River. Her mother swallowed the family's grief whole and no one spoke of the tragedy