39 Pounds of Love (2005)
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Today we watched 39 Pounds of Love, a feel good film about a skinny wheelie with spinal muscular atrophy who journey's across America to confront the doctor that gave him a dire prognosis. We also discuss the dangers of outdated attendant phones, disdain for the "use it or lose it mentality", the terrible trope of unrequited cripple love, and Jamie's unlikely befriending of Dwayne Johnson.
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