It seems like only two scenes later (in fact it was just four months later) that we were saying goodbye to him as he died of complications from esophageal cancer. I remember when my late partner popped an oyster into his mouth at happy hour and then couldn’t swallow it. I can relate to looking back at an innocent moment that would later reverberate like a tragic movie plot. There would be many surgeries to follow and multiple misdiagnoses before they would find the cancer that would change her life – and her face forever. Grealy is describing the moment when a collision during an innocent childhood game knocked her to the asphalt of her primary school, and she felt – for the first time – a pain in her jaw. In everyday life, where we cough often and are always bumping into people, our daily actions rarely reverberate so lucidly.” – Lucy Grealy “When a film’s heroine innocently coughs, you know that two scenes later, at most, she’ll be in an oxygen tent when a man bumps into a woman at the train station, you know that man will become the woman’s lover and/or murderer.
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