I hope everyone had a
nice July 4th holiday.
It’s been quite hot
and humid in New York for the past few days so the best thing we could find to
do was to see a couple of movies.
First, we saw “Three
Identical Strangers.” This documentary tells quite an incredible story about a
set of triplets who were born to an unmarried woman in 1961 and given up for
adoption to three separate families. In 1980, when one of the three started
college, he was puzzled to find that many people on campus seemed to know him
but were calling him by a different name. It turned that they knew his twin
brother, and after that they found out that these two were the result of the
birth of identical triplets. The documentary includes many clips of interviews
with the three young men and traces their lives both before and after they
discovered each other. While they were initially thrilled to have found each
other, unfortunately, the ending is not entirely happy. All of them had
emotional problems and one of the three took his own life. The documentary
talks about the efforts to gain more information about the circumstances of
these adoptions but many of the records are to remain sealed for years to come,
so we may never know all of the sad details, or even just how many children
were involved in the “experiments” that involved other children placed with
families by the Louise Wise adoption agency.
The second film we saw was called “Leave No Trace.” This film received a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. It tells the story of a man named Will (played by Ben Foster) and his daughter who goes by the nickname Tom (Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie). Will’s wife/Tom’s mother had apparently died when Tom was quite young, and Will, a veteran whose experiences left him deeply troubled, and Tom lived in relative isolation for many years, moving from one temporary abode to another. The acting, particularly 18-year-old McKenzie, is quite impressive. But it is quite a sad film to watch.
I have been trying to look through camp pictures every day and have been able to catch many pictures of our grandchildren having lots of fun. I am a bit reluctant to post a lot of pictures here because they include other campers whose families probably want their privacy. But here are a few.
I have another treatment scheduled this Friday. We have not yet been able to see the actual report but Dr. Iyer (oncologist) wrote
I took a look at the scan and it looks like the lymph nodes that the cancer had gone to have shrunk down to normal size, which is great news.
Sounds like pretty good news to us!
Love,
Rebecca
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