Lámha Fuar Croí Te // Cold Hands Warm Heart

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This is a movie about a kid who leaves her birth family.

Not a kid who find that they have a secret lineage or something that allows them to find their ‘true family’ - this is a movie about a kid whose true birth family is made up of bad people. So she gets out. And that is played as the right thing to do. She isn’t punished for it or made to feel bad about ‘abandoning her family’. There isn’t an underlying ‘but they’re your family and you have to love them’ or ‘they’re your family and they love you even if they don’t show it well or do hurtful things’ message of the kind that I see OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER in media. Matilda gets out and lives happily ever after because of it.

Hello I am an adult with an anxiety disorder and I lost my comfort item.

My bunny is named Blue Bunny and she is my most important thing in the world. I would go without water sooner than I would give her up. I got her 18 years ago and she hasn’t slept without me since. Her ears and paws are threadbare in places, and her head is floppy and soft.

I got off the Amtrak Bus stop in La Cresenta, CA on the north side Honolulu Ave west of Lowell Ave.

My ex-girlfriend—Erin—had extreme anxiety issues. Her mother completely walked out of her life when she was 5 and refused to speak to her, and her father was tragically killed in a car accident when she was 17. She had no family to go to, since absolutely nobody wanted her. She wasn’t a deadbeat or a blight; her family was just that cruel, with the exception of her father, who was the last person in the world that she had faith in.

Ever since then, she kept the teddy bear that her father had given her—Mr. Taddy—in order to remind her of him and to keep all of her anxieties at bay. She’d never lost it, nor had she ever had anything bad happen to it.

I was going through some rough shit at the time, but this isn’t about me. She and I got together in a long-distance relationship (she lived in Maryland, I in Louisiana), and everything was good for 5 months. In June of 2011, she decided to fly in and spend the week with me. After our amazing week, she decided to leave Mr. Taddy with me before she flew back because she trusted me with him.

I broke up with her two days later. I’m not getting into why, because this story isn’t about me, but I regret all of it to this day.

She was distraught and in pure despair. She needed Mr. Taddy back, but I couldn’t find it in me to mail it myself. I gave it to my previous (and first) ex, trusting she could mail it out, since she was friends with Erin. She didn’t mail it out.

For the next few weeks, Erin was having panic attacks daily and cried most of the days she was awake. Not because of the break-up, but because she lost the only thing she had keeping her happy and sane. Her father’s death shattered her world, but it was only second-worst in comparison to this.