The opening of this was used for a scene in Slaughterhouse Five that has stuck in my head like so much else. The scene with Billy sitting alone, with his dog.
1978.
It was all so completely assured and easy. I had the most beautiful woman on earth in love with me and things were fine. Then my brother broke his back cliff diving at Skaha Lake in August that year.
He was taller, stronger and braver than me, all I ever wanted to be. But he was laying...
we danced to this. danced like it would go on forever... close. I remember a guy staring at us. He seemed angry but was just intense. Turned out his wife had just died.
I'm told I don't look the same. Tired, and older... likely the same thing.