-In no particular order, but as they come to mind-
MOVIES:
Snoopy Come Home - So simple. So touching.Fly Away Home - That song at the beginning and the end kills me.
High School Musical 3: Senior Year - Cried myself to sleep. Why do we have to grow up?
Smoke Signals - The dad leaves the family; the boy runs after him = familiarity.
Wit - One of the most powerful films I've ever seen.
Billy Elliot - Ahh, Billy. The letter from the mother.
What's Eating Gilbert Grape - Weekly obsession.
Stranger Than Fiction - Harold's life is beautiful.
Life is Beautiful - You can't tell me it's not moving.
Australia - The reunion.
It's a Wonderful Life - True friends, true love.
Gattacca - Another high school obsession. Jude Law in flames.
Cinderella - The sisters rip the dress apart. How could they? How could they?
Together - That last scene.
BOOKS:Nectar in a Sieve - Why Nathan?
Angela's Ashes - My favorite book for many years.
Where the Red Fern Grows - Read it the first time two years ago. Made me cry so much I threw up and got a priesthood blessing.
Anne of Green Gables - You know, when he passes away in the first book?
Catcher in the Rye - Something about Holden resonates with me; it's that idea of stepping off the curb. Can't explain it.
Walk Two Moons - The frozen meals in the fridge are so familiar.
MUSIC:
Appalachian Spring, Samuel Barber - Too much beauty.
Mother Goose Suite, Maurice Ravel - In fairy tales no one has to die.
I feel like many sad things have happened over time and it takes a lot to make me cry. Sometimes it's all too trite, but push the right button and it's all over.
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I just want to say that many of the things that make you cry also make me cry. Especially the books and the music. (Don't tell anyone else, but I ALWAYS cried when we played the last movement of the Mother Goose Suite. So heavenly. And it's kinda hard to play the flute when you're bawling. I hope Kory didn't notice....)
The Berceuse and Finale from the Firebird always gets me too.
I'm with you on Wit, Together, and Mother Goose. For me, in the Ravel, the beauty represents the beauty of the life from which we are currently separated. It's unreal, and that's what makes it so poignant.
Disney-Pixar movies do it for me, too, pretty much all of them.
The song "The Luckiest" by Ben Folds.
The Hallelujah Chorus.
Handwritten letters.
Watching someone I love do something they love.
When anyone talking to me starts to cry.
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