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Amy! I would like to officially welcome you to the world of unending optimism! I can give you a list of movies that while sweet, won’t rot your teeth!

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Hah! I thought of you while writing this piece. I just watched a third entry in the vaunted Hallmark canon that was really scraping the bottom of the barrel.

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List will be coming your way shortly!!

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Great deconstruction. I watched the movie about the 1940's filmstar last year. I enjoyed it for all the reasons you wrote about. I can usually watch one to three per season, late in the evening, under a blanket with a mug of tea. If I watch more, the shine of a simple pleasure tarnishes.

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Ah, yes. Too much sugar rots the teeth!

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Mindlessness is underrated.

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Great analysis. The Hallmark movies' nine-act structures move at such a break-neck pace.

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