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Too Much Recap: The Way We Were
We finally get to the bottom of what holds Felix back from being vulnerable in love.
Both of his parents were artists; his mother was a painter, and his father — though we never learn what he did for a job or how he was able to amass a fortune coming from a Hungarian immigrant family whose patriarch delivered milk to make ends meet — was a piano player. Simon tells Felix that in a dream, he remembered something his father used to say to him: “Don’t be a slave to fortune.” That means that each person gets an allotted amount of luck, and once it runs out, there’s no use “hunting for it.” He’s resigned himself to the idea that at one point or another, children are bound to take over for their parents. When he gets home to Jess — who spent her day watching BBC documentaries and dealing with what her grandmother calls “honeymoon cystitis,” a symptom of “overusing the hardware,” meaning her vagina hurts — at first, he won’t tell her what happened over his visit that made him so sad.
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