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To us, it sounds comically quaint; Queen Victoria would have plotzed from mortification.

Maybe it was the sense of hopelessness and mortification that made them throw caution, and inferiority, to the wind.

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Unless you like having your child die from mortification before your very eyes.

None of the above appear in the film, though we see hints of her bodily mortifications and one hungover instance of virtuoso vomiting.

And when Ma Carruthers hangs a rainbow ornament on the tree for “my gay son” to Jimmy’s mortification, well, at least she’s trying?

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