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Internal Blog Post With a newly published book “The Good Neighbor” and the recent documentary “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” I have been th...

File this under things so lovely, we never even considered them possible: A movie about Mr. Rogers is in the works. It's nearly the best Mr. Rogers-related thing I can imagine happening, second only to actually being able to have a trolley-tunnel wall in my house. The script's story line is currently under wraps, but I think we can all presume that it's uplifting and we'll laugh and cry and zip up our cardigans and cry some more. Mr. Rogers always made us feel safe, didn't he? Except for…

Childrens’ shows are supposed to make you feel good—because they’re made for kids, after all. They’re usually lighthearted, fun, and colorful, with bursts of teachable moments and life lessons. But some scenes shattered our hearts into a million pieces. Who knew shows made for kids could have such emotional endings and gut-punching scenes? So get those tissue boxes ready and prepare to cry all over again, as we go on a trip down memory lane with the most heartbreaking and emotional scenes…

The small but powerful fact comes from Dear Mr. Rogers, Does It Ever Rain in Your Neighborhood?: Letters to Mr. Rogers.

Fred Rogers was anything but a glutton; his Thanksgiving shows were about hunger not just bounty, and he refused "to eat anything that had a mother."

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