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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Rhaenelys on 2026-02-19 10:00:18+00:00.
The story took places 3 years ago, it was our first Christman since my father died. My mother was especially sad, because my father passed on Christmas day.
So, we went to Barcelona, just the two of us.
Over there, we visited the chocolate museum, where we saw beautiful sculptures entirely made out of chocolates. One one them represented the movie Up ! Not a particular scene in the movie, juste the main characters in a garden, with the floating house above them.
My mother was curious about it, so I offered to show her the movie this very night. I remembered it for the jungle, the old men fight, the talking dogs, etc...
I had completly forgotten about the first 10 minutes. I realized my screw up as soon as Ellie appeared on screen, but at this point it was too late.
When the scene ended with the old man burying his wife, my mother was already crying. Not bawling, silently crying. I offered to stop the movie, but she wanted to see where it was heading.
Of course, the rest of the movie was awesome, but she was still crying at the end, telling me that the worst in growing old was to be affraid to end up alone.
And yeah...
TL;DR: I showed my mother, who was still grieving about my father, a movie about an old man loosing his wife...