![]() ![]() ![]() In the 1956 film, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, people who’d been replaced by aliens could no longer cry, a telltale sign that they were not human. Animals do not shed tears of emotion apes have tear ducts but only to “bathe and heal” the eyes. ![]() Humans are the only creatures who cry for emotional reasons. I hadn’t expected the quilt - a patchwork of many quilts - to affect me so powerfully, the clothes and artifacts and mementos stitched into tapestries, with dates of births and premature deaths, soft beautiful tombstones. In the early 1990s I joined a stream of people strolling past the AIDS quilt spread across a gymnasium floor in Lansing, Michigan, the room quiet but for our muffled sniffling. Maureen Stanton | Longreads | January 2020 | 26 minutes (6,448 words) Join Longreads and help us to support more writers. ![]()
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