Ebert

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 Got this from lyprulz  and it's one of the most beautiful, depressing articles I've ever read about a single human being:

Roger Ebert: The Essential Man
It has been nearly four years since Roger Ebert lost his lower jaw and his ability to speak. Now television's most famous movie critic is rarely seen and never heard, but his words have never stopped.

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...wow.

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Yeah, okay, I have to add to this.

I cried. I somehow missed all of this happening to Mr. Ebert, and to read this, to see that this is how he lives his life now...dammit, I hope that if anything ever befalls me I can still live as gracefully as this man.

[scdsam]

I remember following him after his salivary gland operation but then losing touch.

I cried too. Terribly.

He was always so perfectly worded, so thoughtful before. But somehow now it just makes everything multiplied a thousandfold. To know what kind of effort and meaning and raw emotion is behind every letter of what he writes...it just makes me want to cry all over again.

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I was too youngish and didn't much care about movies, then. I certainly wasn't the geek I am now.

Whoever wrote that article has a good grasp on the emotion of words, too. Between them both I barely managed to get through it all.