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watching the RENT movie, and I'm thinking about how long I'll have to wait before I can let my kids watch. and then I'm realizing how much I'll have to explain so they have the context to appreciate it. the biggie being how AIDS was a flat-out death sentence when RENT was written.
which then makes me wonder how much of what my folks love i just can't appreciate for lack of context. or at least, for lack of a connection to that context.
I was one of the college kids sleeping out overnight to get the front row seats at the Shubert in Boston, thanks to my sister doing it first and getting me hooked. I've seen the play probably a dozen times live. And I can rant at my daughter about it, but I don't think I'll be able to convey what it meant to me at that point in my life.