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Crying at the cinema – and my low-brow tastes

Published by Emma Lee-Potter in on Tuesday 19th June 2012

As the credits rolled my daughter took a long sideways glance at me and groaned. “I can’t take you anywhere,” she joked. “Why do you always cry at films?” I tried to deny it but my red eyes and tear-stained cheeks gave the game away. I’d nearly made it to the end of the Brideshead Revisited DVD without shedding a tear, then stumbled at the very last hurdle. “I can’t ...keep reading