but I was pretty impressed by watching this movie this week. I have to confess that these depictions of this kind of illness/ disability...fabulism leave me confused, not because of the flouting of a huge moral boundary--though, of course, lying about cancer is appalling, but, okay, as a person who has been the recipient of pity-as-attention or attention-as-pity(whichever) off and on throughout my life, I wonder why anyone might want that.
(Is that another opportunity I failed to make the most of, looking for respect that I...kind of never got either? About the only place I ever got "Lucky!"-style attention that I was allowed to accept was at Disneyland, I think, which kind of loses its potency as your friends start pairing off and having sex.)
I could really relate to the main character's feelings about not keeping up as everything changed for her friends at the same time feeling that she wouldn't trade, exactly. Also, trying too hard to keep your group together, though suddenly dominating message board threads doesn't look as weird anymore.
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