💬 Opinion 16h ago · James H. McGee

John Wick Was Right

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I was seven years old when my family went to see the big Disney hit, Old Yeller. In the climactic scene, when Old Yeller dies, my big sister and I were bawling, my mother was sobbing audibly, and my dad, though toughened by the horrors of infantry combat, was clearly struggling to hold back his own tears — in my short life, I’d never seen him so visibly moved.
Perhaps it was the sheer power of the acting, the contagion of grief evoked by the on-screen family so similar to our own. Perhaps it aff

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