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"Sometimes, to keep myself going, I picture you lying in a casket."
Ruth gasped. "How dare you say that? You know l want to be cremated. So no one can screw up my makeup"

I love this moment between Shawn and his grandmother, Ruth. Someone clearly accustomed to Shawn's more blunt and shocking declarations, she deflects his inability to filter and responds in kind with humour and wit.