Weep Week

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As the saying goes, there arereally only six kinds of stories.

Agay tragedyto remind the straights how precious life is

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Old people in love

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A wise, sick child

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The town saves the superhero

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Sufjan Stevensis playing

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Beauty of existence montage

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A guygets really specificabout all the stuff he misses about his late wife

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Ive learned so much from this brief relationship

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A child/supernatural entity confronts death for the first time and is like kindly wake up

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Mom istrying her best

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A dadhas feelings

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The teams weakest, cutest member dies

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Someone who was in The Warremembers The War

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Girl Trauma (the pain of growing up)

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Woman Trauma (CPTSD diagnoses-adjacent)

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A deathbed reconciliation

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He didnt make it

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A deathbed reconciliation cant occur because … he didnt make it

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More broadly, thwarted dreams?

Heroically blowing yourself up for the greater good, somethingShea Whigamhas done twice

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Memory fading, magical or regular

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Claire Danes is crying and now Im crying

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The siblings who have been separated by the plot are reunited and now Im crying

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The music isreally loud and prettyand now Im crying I dont quite know why shut up

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The character who is struggling finally checks into rehab

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An Oh God, what have I done?

I dont care about me, just save my baby!

A ghost is talking to a living person but the living person cant hear them

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A sad mirror montage, like inThe Royal Tenenbaums.

OrMulan, whichever

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The guy whos been keeping it together during a tragedyfinally snaps

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The power of friendship

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Someone is dying and theyre like I dont want to die

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Someone talking about their lifes passion

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An I believe in you monologue

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Healing generational trauma

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Oh dang, their death hasbeen foreshadowedthis whole time

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You think someone is talking to a character offscreen, but surprise!

Its a tombstone

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Youre a time traveler/vampire/unfrozen caveman and everyone youve ever loved is old and/or dead

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The protagonist finds out how much they mean to other people

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Someone is being carried/cradled inPieta-like fashion, like Ryan did to Marissa on three different occasions onThe O.C.

Man is the real monster

49.Daddy wasnt there

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Surrogate Daddywasthere, but hes dead now

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Your loved one is still alive in these home movies!

The majesty and metaphor,the epic highs and lowsof high-school football

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Someone knows theyre turning into a zombie and is being very brave about it

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A poorly attended birthday

56.A sad lil singalong

  1. was dying but hes fine now

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The Christmas Truce of 1914

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You got everything you ever wanted.

But at what cost?

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