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In the first volume of his epic memoir cycle, My Struggle, Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard recounts the emotional vicissitudes of his adolescence and young adulthood with a sense of guilelessness and detail unprecedented in literature.

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Great film about people making connections. Features two main characters, a diorvced woman and a divorced man, both of whom have kids who are just about to head off to college. They're both lonely and fearing becoming more lonely. And they meet and begin to fall in love.

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This feature film staged in 1939 is based ona true story. In a horrible Irish reformatory school for boys a horrific regime and mentality reigns.

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Think you know homelessness? Think again...  
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It's a film about true story of a tenacious social worker, who uncovers a government backed mass deportation of children from UK to Australia.   Her empathy with the adults telling her their stories of abuse and terror, causes her personal grief, and me too.  

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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is the moving memoir of a college senior who, in the space of five weeks, loses both of his parents to cancer and inherits his eight-year-old brother.

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Mary is the newly orphaned daughter of absentee colonial parents. She has been used to being left quite alone. And mostly 'brought up', if that's the word for such an impoverished childhood, by the very people whom her parents have been the most highly complicit in oppressing - servants.
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This is a very sentimental movie that you can see through three strong  women persperctives, in different moments of time. It's my favorite.

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This film reminded me that I am human , I do feel ... perhaps too much .

It's a modern day ponochiio (spelt wrong) story.

You will most likely heard of it but in a nutshell - 

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