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Originally Posted by guihong
Film-it's a tie between The Crying Game and Brokeback Mountain. Probably Crying Game slightly more, as I saw it umpteen times. I know now that that's when I started figuring things out for myself. The first time I saw it left me shattered.
Book- Animal Farm, in high school. I thought it would be a stupid story. I could add Shirley Jackson's The Lottery, which I read in the same class. When I started reading that story, I thought it would be the dumbest thing ever. A bunch of people gathering in a park. My teacher didn't fool around with insipid stuff.
If art counts, then my own art, in a way  . I was a life model in college. My posing assignments certainly weren't sexual, but I was amazed at the disconnect between how I felt my body looked, and what came out on the students' canvasses. I thought they had the wrong person. I try to remember that experience now, when I have aging and sexual issues.
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- A short story that I read at least 30 years ago which had the theme of "do it scared." It helped me learn that I don't have to wait until I'm no longer afraid to do things.
- A documentary on preparing the bodies of dead loved ones at home. The idea was horrifying to me before that, and it showed me how much it could be a beautiful and connecting ritual that can help get you through the initial pain of losing someone you love dearly.
- An article on women with attention deficit disorder, which I read shortly after I turned 40. I sobbed - deeply, loudly, uncontrollably - for at least 10 minutes after I read it, because at that time, even though I was clearly intelligent, I was convinced that I was simply incompetent, and my self-esteem was at its lowest point ever because I could see what I needed to do in my life but felt so incapable of doing so many things.
GM3 songs, stories, books, or movies that make you tear up or cry every single time you hear/read/watch them.