Word: laurell
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...Laurel...
...comedic craftsmanship, Kanfer saw Allen's recent shows and movies, pored over a collection of gags and scripts, then interviewed him. Part of the Allen magic, Kanfer learned, grows out of his obsession with the improbable. "His mind takes very big leaps. There is an old movie with Laurel and Hardy carrying a piano across a tiny, swaying bridge. Funny, but still fairly logical. Then a gorilla appears at the other side of the bridge. In Allen's humor, there is always a gorilla at the end of his bridge...
...that seems obscene to Laurel, the presence of death had broken their harmony long before her mother died...
Before returning to her own home in Chicago, Laurel burns her father's letters to Becky and takes no keepsakes...
...travel with is the memory of her parents' love and her own love for them - and the knowledge that even such a trinity is insufficient in the face of suffering and death. The book ends quietly. All her ex-bridesmaids reassemble to see Laurel off. Some first-graders wave goodbye from their schoolyard...