MEMORIES ARE MADE OF THIS

MEMORIES ARE MADE OF THIS . . .                                                                              You've Got Mail  Great movie . . . charming! Many smiles! My little French granddaughter, Naomi and I watched "You've Got Mail" together. Naomi is 7.  There is a place in the movie where the shopgirl/owner, Kathleen Kelly/MegRyan, closes her children's book store door for the final time. Kathleen Kelly has lovely memories of growing up, going to work in that store with her mother and "twirling" in the back corner.  In fact, there is a picture of her "twirling" with her mother on the wall.  At the "close out sale" you might notice that picture of Kathleen and her mother twirling, and a sign pasted on the frame saying, "not for sale!" When Kathleen closes the door of the "Shop Around the Corner" for this final time, now totally empty of books and chairs and pictures on the walls, she removes the large bell of brass from the door, turns off the lights; she takes a final look back and for a brief moment she "sees" that memory of her mother twirling her as a child.  She hears the music.  It is a most precious moment.  It is enchanting. I told Naomi that she always needs to remember that part of the movie.  Even though the store had to be closed, and even though a chain store put Kathleen out of business, and even though Kathleen had to leave this place she loved. . .no one, not ever in her life, could take away the memory.  Memories are ours forever.