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Daughters hide precious voicemail in Christmas teddy bear for their dad
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Some Christmas gifts will bring you to tears.
Especially this teddy bear given by two daughters to their father. By pressing a button on the bear, a very special voicemail from their late grandmother plays.
North Carolina-based Twitter user Melia, who goes by @meliatinnin, said her dad had kept the treasured voicemail on his phone, but his daughters found a different way to preserve it.
“My dad refuses to get an iphone because a voicemail from his mom that passed away won’t transfer from an android,” she tweeted, “so me and my sister put it in a bear. merry christmas dad.” Read more…
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The real horror of ‘Hereditary’ is its realistic portrait of a family in grief
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At face value, Hereditary works as an elegant genre film about the occult. But on a subtextual level, even the most supernatural scenes in the film speak to the raw realities of being a family possessed by grief.
Director Ari Aster told Mashable that initially, he “described [Hereditary] not as a horror film, but as a family tragedy that looks into a nightmare — but in the way that life is a nightmare when disaster strikes. Especially in succession.”
Maybe the experience of family dysfunction and death is so monstrous that we can only face it through the lens of a genre that houses our greatest ghouls and demons. Because, as Aster said, “What happens to this family is inherently horrific, even if you strip away all the supernatural elements.” Read more…
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This Twitter thread about missing loved ones at Christmas has a heartwarming twist ending
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Twitter may be packed full of petty arguments, angry trolls, and more vitriol than you can shake a tiny blue bird at, but it’s not all bad.
Sometimes it can actually be quite a nice place.
On Saturday, Rachael Prior wrote two tweets describing how Christmas reminds her of her dad.
Nowhere and no time do I miss my dad more acutely than in the men’s department of M&S at Christmas.
— Rachael Prior (@ORachaelO) November 11, 2017
If I see another reasonable priced, deep red angora mix sweater with a ribbon round it I’m going to actually have a breakdown.
— Rachael Prior (@ORachaelO) November 11, 2017 Read more…
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