"We are very grateful and moved by the kindness and sympathy for us, " they said.

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Although he didn't invoke Tennessee Williams' "the kindness of strangers, " it is very much in practice online.

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But it's very much in keeping with the brothers' earlier films, many of which are about the possibility of kindness.

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