re: So I re-watched the opening scene of UP

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Part of the reason I choke up every time I watch it is because I've witnessed first hand both of my grandmothers watch the love of their lives die and be where Carl is. Just to be so lost without your other half.

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When I was 19 my paw-paw died at 80-something after 60+ years of marriage. We were having the wake at my mom and dad's and at one point, my maw-maw was sitting alone at our dining room table. I walked by and kind of touched her on the shoulder and she looked up at me and said "What am I going to do, J"?
She wasn't known to be sick at that point, but she died two months later.