Until that day in 2008 do, when he was diagnosed with a potentially fatal bone cancer, Bruce Feiler had been living a seemingly charmed life.
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That's evident in the movie's best scene, when Elena and O come face to face as captor and captive, and O, revealing a sweetly banal attitude toward life, rambles on about her days at a community college and her charmed existence with Chon and Ben.
There is a sense in which I think that I have led a charmed life, with a wonderful wife, Eileen and three children, one son-in-law and two grandchildren.
The young man who emerges from Virgil Tanase's biography in particular is seductive, funny and loving, but constantly on the move: between the raw, sun-drenched Mediterranean and cramped, grey Paris, ever in search of respite from crippling bouts of tuberculosis, as well as comfort from the various women he charmed and loved with a passion.