actually honestly me being emotionally taken over by Five Feet Apart makes sense because while it is in its purest form a story about a very specific sickness it's at the same time a story about a near-universal ailment: loneliness. the fact that it's a story about kids with cystic fibrosis doesn't make it any less true, it just puts it in very very stark terms. Stella is an incredibly lonely girl, even though she has friends, has family, has people that she can touch. those people will never fully know her though. it's a story about being Seen and Known, fully. about never truly being a part of life the way other people are. the sense that you are losing and will continue to lose everyone that matters, and wouldn't it be easier if you just left first? it's a story about cystic fibrosis, yes, and that's valuable, but it's also a story about loneliness growing up.