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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Monday, January 24, 2022 - 4:50 pm 
I guess I'll just wait and see what they show.
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Kookliebird
Member
08-04-2005
| Monday, January 24, 2022 - 5:22 pm
I don’t mind the back stories. Family stories are messy sometimes and things that happened way back sometimes come up at the oddest moments. I would suspect that they will somehow tie it all back to the big 3 in regards to Rebecca’s passing. Plus, I want the story to continue forever, in what ever form.
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-30-2000
| Monday, January 24, 2022 - 5:43 pm
I think they are just sticking with the same format they have had all along? They take a subject, (like your first time, or being a father), and show it from many views. I presume the Jack/mother death may juxtapose with Rebecca's death.
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Jimmer
Board Administrator
08-29-2000
| Monday, January 24, 2022 - 6:50 pm
Yes. That’s what has made this show different and appealing. Very interesting to see how different generations deal with a similar issue.
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Pamy
Member
01-01-2002
| Monday, January 24, 2022 - 7:55 pm
Sugar, ITA!
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Monday, January 24, 2022 - 10:18 pm
ITA Jimmer
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Heckagirl631
Member
09-08-2010
| Tuesday, January 25, 2022 - 8:44 pm
Tonight's show was very touching! As someone who has lost her mother and father, very touching!
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Kookliebird
Member
08-04-2005
| Tuesday, January 25, 2022 - 10:23 pm
I agree. I’m only a few minutes in and am vividly remembering my moms passing and her relationship with my brother.
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Pamy
Member
01-01-2002
| Tuesday, January 25, 2022 - 10:47 pm
I would have rather seen the big 3 and how life is going for them, esp with only a few eps left in this entire series.
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Kookliebird
Member
08-04-2005
| Tuesday, January 25, 2022 - 11:18 pm
I enjoyed a full episode of Jack. Of course, I was in tears by the end... composed myself, then he said ‘I don’t have a mother anymore’ and I lost it....
When my mom passed, I was the only one who stayed with her even though i hadn’t slept for over 24 hours. I had to call my family to let them know she was gone. Some family members came back to the hospital to say their last good bye. Others decided not to. My sister took care of getting my dad back home. Nothing else to do, so I drove home by myself at 2 in the morning. As I was driving, I said the exact same thing out loud in my car and burst into tears. I don’t know how I ever made it home through the tears. But, I did.
I hadn’t thought of that night for a very long time. I haven’t had a mother for 20 years now. This episode, while emotional, was a bit cathartic for me.
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Colordeagua
Member
10-24-2003
| Wednesday, January 26, 2022 - 7:19 am
When my mom died thought I'm an orphan now. I was 49. Also had thoughts that my childhood was totally gone as I'm an only child. No one to remember it with.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Wednesday, January 26, 2022 - 11:14 am
There are 18 episodes this season, I think we have had 5, so plenty of time for the big three.
I loved this episode so much. I love any time we can get more of Jack. Milo Ventimiglia was fantastic. I cried through the whole thing. I cried for moms who wait for that weekly phone call, or any phone call, for any bits and pieces of their children's lives that they give her. For all those moms who don't get visits or calls. I cried for people like me, like Jack, that don't have our moms anymore and would give anything to talk to them again. Color, I said the same thing when my mom died. My dad died 41 years ago so when I lost my mom, even though I was almost 60, I felt like an orphan. Our parents ground us, even at any age. I think this all leads up to the three losing their mom.
Just a standout episode all around.
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Pamy
Member
01-01-2002
| Wednesday, January 26, 2022 - 1:31 pm
Color, I felt same when my mom died. I was only child and my parents were also only children. I was 34.
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Kitt
Member
09-05-2000
| Wednesday, January 26, 2022 - 2:04 pm
So although it wasn't relevant to what we've seen about Jack, it is one of those parallels between past and present, as - from what we're led to believe - the three will be going through the same thing this season.
Such a well done episode it's hard to fault it, even if perhaps it was unnecessary for many viewers at this stage in the series.
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Kookliebird
Member
08-04-2005
| Wednesday, January 26, 2022 - 3:14 pm
To me, it was a wonderful stand alone story. But, I do think that we will see something similar in the very last episode with the Big 3.
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Colordeagua
Member
10-24-2003
| Wednesday, January 26, 2022 - 3:30 pm
quote:I felt same when my mom died. I was only child and my parents were also only children. I was 34.
Pamy, so you have no aunts, uncles, cousins? Being an only child myself who didn't marry, no children, I've always wondered about only children of parents who were only children. My mom had three brothers, my father had five brothers. Six grandchildren on my mother's side, I'm the oldest. App. 20 grandchildren on my father's side, I'm the youngest. I've got cousins -- none are physically or otherwise close. My family is my 11 YY pup. 
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Pamy
Member
01-01-2002
| Wednesday, January 26, 2022 - 5:11 pm
No aunts, uncles, or 1st cousins. When my mom died her mom was still alive but lived in another state and had dementia. It was the worst time in my life. My mom and I were super close.
thank God I had my son who was only 1 1/2 yrs old at the time but he is what got me out of bed each day. Without him, I had no will to live.
Luckily, I have always had a core of close friends that are like family and they were there for me. God blessed me 8 months after my mom died and sent my hubby to me. He has loved me unconditionally just like my parents. I am truly blessed
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Yayadeb
Member
08-12-2021
| Wednesday, January 26, 2022 - 5:34 pm
I can relate to those who lost a mom at an early age. I was 24. Only child of divorced parents (never knew my dad). I was living in another city from her since I was 19, so we didn’t see each other but every few months. Jack’s last line, ‘ I don’t have a Mom anymore” got me good. I went into the ugly cry. She passed in 1975, but sometimes it feels like yesterday.
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Kookliebird
Member
08-04-2005
| Wednesday, January 26, 2022 - 5:37 pm
I had tons of cousins growing up. I knew none of them because we lived in Oregon and they were in the Midwest or East Coast. It wasn’t until FB and the demise of my mother’s siblings, that we all connected. I discovered that, with the exception of a couple of cousins from one aunt, I didn’t miss much by not knowing the others. Some are hidden from my FB page now… life is too short to spend time seeing what nonsense they spew anymore.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Thursday, January 27, 2022 - 12:09 am
I thought it was well done.
In one year I lost my mom in February, my job in May and my dad in June. Good thing I was in therapy then.
My brother is 500 miles away, had 2 first cousins who were older and both are gone.
Milo did a great job. I worried most about the cat, but decided it was his mom being with him until he left, then hoped he would stay home with mom's boyfriend.
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Colordeagua
Member
10-24-2003
| Thursday, January 27, 2022 - 6:06 am
My dad died in '73 at age 67. My mom died in '96 at age 89. I wouldn't call mom and I close though not distant. Don't know what you'd call itt. We each had our own units in the same condo bldg where I still am. And I'm kind of a loner. There was a guy years back. He came and went through the years I knew him. He was "it" for me. Died 12/26/09.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Thursday, January 27, 2022 - 9:39 pm
I have had no parents for over 50 years. Both died real young of natural causes.
I sort of resented a totally different storyline being the total topic tonight with so few episodes left. But it was well done and sort of a stand alone story. I loved the kids playing with the grandparent they never had and hope he somehow figures in again.
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Babyjaxmom
Member
10-20-2002
| Friday, January 28, 2022 - 1:47 am
I just lost my mom barely a year ago. She was 97, and I was 65. My dad died in 1988, and my first husband left me just a few months later, so my mom and I both "got single" around the same time. We were very close for a long time. We took a lot of trips together: Lake Tahoe, Hawaii, Las Vegas. My new husband and I bought a house with my mom, and we all lived here together for 7 1/2 years (with our son, who was 6 1/2 when we moved in). When her dementia started to get to be too much, we moved her into a memory care facility, but I still took her to lunch nearly every week. By the time she passed away, she didn't know who I was anymore. That was hard. I really missed being able to talk to her on the phone. I still have one brother and my nephew that my parents raised, but my two older sisters are both gone, too, so there's no one who really remembers things from my childhood (my brother is younger than me).
My mom passed during Covid, so we weren't even able to have a funeral. I've said those words to myself so many times in the past year, "I don't have a mom anymore." But I really lost her long before she died, and I missed her for years before she was actually gone. Dementia is a terrible thing. That's why Rebecca's story means so much to me this season. I understand what they're all going through.
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Jimmer
Board Administrator
08-29-2000
| Friday, January 28, 2022 - 7:50 am
I'm enjoying hearing everyone's stories about their Moms and that is one of the best (of many) things about this show. How viewers can relate to it on a personal level. I was fortunate to have a great relationship with both my parents. My only regret is that they didn't get to meet their grandchildren, which they would have adored.
I have mixed feelings about this episode. It was a beautiful episode in the wrong season. Any other season this would have been fantastic but I do have some empathy for viewers who want to move forward at this point.
The other question I had in watching is where was Nicky? I couldn't believe that Jack didn't call him and that his presence (or lack thereof) was totally ignored by everyone. It was like Jack was an only child.
The preview for next week's show looked amazing. Finally!
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Strategist
Member
07-01-2014
| Friday, January 28, 2022 - 10:19 am
Jack and his family thought Nicky was dead. Remember, Nicky ran away from everyone and lived in a trailer.
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