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I've been on eight business trips in recent months. I'm away so much that my wife, Susan, searches for my photo on the backs of milk cartons, and I've been told my kids are looking to Elmo as a father figure.

Regular readers know we’ve been eagerly following Spike Jonze’s long-in-development adaptation of the iconic children’s book “Where the Wild Things Are.” Our interest was peaked nearly two years ago when we premiered the very first image from the film, and again last summer when we unveiled a second photo.

Traveling cheaply is one thing. Traveling cheaply, in a foreign country, with an infant in tow is another. But Italy proved surprisingly hospitable to a family of three.

They didn't know each other, not yet, but Brian and Amber shared something powerful and intimate -- the loss of Anthony Cardinal. Theirs is a love story that springs from tragedy, two people drawn together in grief.