But they brought me back to the lessons of my mother, a reminder to live as she lived -- openhearted.

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As the lights went down one last time, Ebert would have loved it if all those people sitting in the dark and hoping for the best understood that his approach to movies was big enough, openhearted enough to embrace far more than the movies he'd loved all his life.

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