‘I’m pretty sure I could cry on command if I started thinking about ‘Wicked’,’ Mia Frank, 27, from South London tells me. A Nora Ephron film, a man over the age of 70 eating dinner alone, a mother ...

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One day during school pick-up, my 13-year-old daughter was being harsh and impatient with me. This wasn’t a new behavior, yet on this occasion — to my own surprise — I noticed myself beginning to cry.

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“Devastating problems in your life can also be interesting, and they can interest you as they’re happening to you and as they’re causing you intense pain,” says Agnes Callard, a controversial ...