
I don’t remember how we found it, but Claire and I wound up watching the movie The Grand Seduction. It’s a movie about a small fishing village that is trying to convince a young doctor to live there. We thought it was fun, and that it was a movie our parents might like.
I mentioned the name of the movie to my mom, and she said, “You know, Richard, I don’t really enjoy movies like that.” It was as if I was recommending some good pornography, and she needed to explain that she’s just not really into it. (I, of course, told her that it’s natural, and that there’s nothing wrong with it.)