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“It’s a huge hit,” said Lee Coffee, who lives and works in downtown L.A., mostly lamenting the loss of shade.

“I yearn to be banned again,” said Waters, lamenting that his books are by the front door of bookstores rather than “by the true crime near the bathroom or the gay section in the back.”

In “Laudato Si,” the pope lamented the pain of climate migrants who are “forced to leave their homes, with great uncertainty for their future and that of their children.”

Two months later, in an interview with a Jesuit magazine, the pontiff lamented that the church too often appeared to be “obsessed” with sex and reproductive rights.

While older characters lament a loss of connection, efforts to bridge technological divides demonstrate how cross-generational bonds are possible.