it's my opinion, ken. i gotta be me. what feels right for one person doesn't always feel right to another. no one needs to agree with me but for myself, i feel what i feel.

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I think that's a pretty reductive way of looking at it, Patti. Tragedy is not the "easiest to achieve." What's wrong with stories that reveal human pain? Personally, I love a good ol' tragedy. I also love sad songs. They remind me that I'm not alone, that I'm not the only person to have ever felt pain. And, in the end, that makes me feel alive.

I'm hearing that Brokeback is having that affect on a lot of people, actually. They are talking about how the film has inspired them in a lot of ways, the most important one being that love is something that we should be more careful with and treat with more respect than we do.