Hunter and I enjoyed a quiet weekend at home this weekend, and "Cold Mountain" was playing on TV. Not the sort of movie we're always up for, but it was cold and windy and we were ready for some boob toob time. You know the scene with Natalie Portman, where she has a sick baby, and Union soldiers come and tie her up outside and lay the baby unwrapped out in the open cold? In the past, I've found that scene disturbing, for sure, but this time? Sick to my stomach. I couldn't watch it, I actually had to go out in the kitchen and cover my ears, and I still felt sick. It was incredible, how powerfully it affected me. The power of a mother's instinct is amazing, isn't it?
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