it’s possible for you to thank a nursery rhyme for all those ugly tears.

“Talk about Mary recognizing what they need in that moment.

It’s very disconcerting.

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So the idea that ‘nothing’s gone forever, only out of place’…

I remember first learning that song and not being able to get through it,ever.

Especially the bit about the mother at the end, because I saw my own children in them.

I’m going to cry if I even talk about it.

That song probably means the most to me.”

Shaiman and Wittman knew that the song had to be an emotional home-run.

So, just as P.L.

Scott often mentions, the books are actually very metaphysical and very Eastern philosophy."

Wittman adds, “There’s a lot of zen in it.”

One less lost thing in the world.