Simon Dillon
Jul 18, 2021

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You're welcome. :)

My wife and I both lost our fathers in the last decade, very suddenly and unexpectedly (both were fit as a fiddle and only just 70). Neither of us wanted to be around the funerals or the wake, and - in my mother's case - nor did she. To be honest, I was so concerned about my mother that I pushed aside my own grief for a very long time, and didn't even really cry until a few months later when I rewatched The Tree of Life and a Japanese film called Departures. To grieve someone, it turns out I need 1) time to acknowledge my own feelings (I'm tend to squash them down a lot) and 2) really good catharsis films, viewed alone.

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Simon Dillon
Simon Dillon

Written by Simon Dillon

Novelist and Short Story-ist. Film and Book Lover. If you cut me, I bleed celluloid and paper pulp. Blog: www.simondillonbooks.wordpress.com

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