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...love at first sight, and in a tender montage, Up shows us their life together: the wedding, the fixing up of their home, the quiet walks, their respective jobs at the local zoo (she tending the animals, he selling balloons), their eager preparations for a child they later learn they can't have, their need to defer the big trip to pay for home improvements, then her slowing pace and death. This series of vignettes is played without dialogue and underscored by Michael Giacchino's wistful waltz. It's the sweetest, saddest 4½ minutes you'll ever...
...third-grade education and spoke only Spanish; her mother worked as a nurse at a methadone clinic and bought the neighborhood's only set of encyclopedias. A fiercely devoted student, Sotomayor attended Catholic schools and then Princeton University on a scholarship, graduating summa cum laude. She later attended Yale Law School and worked for the Manhattan district attorney's office as well as a prestigious corporate firm before donning judges' robes. She was nominated to New York's U.S. District Court by President George H.W. Bush, later rising to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York...
...Married while a student at Princeton and divorced five years later. Does not have children. Has one brother, a doctor in Syracuse...
...First wanted to be a police officer after reading the Nancy Drew mystery stories but was told her diabetes might prevent fulfilling that dream. Later settled on becoming a judge after watching Perry Mason episodes, noting the judge was the most powerful person in the courtroom...
...Joined the Manhattan district attorney's office, where from 1979 to 1984 she prosecuted cases involving robberies, assaults and other crimes. Later spent eight years at the law firm Pavia & Harcourt, specializing in intellectual property and rising to partner...