Storms we cannot weather

Storms we cannot weather Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway star in a scene from Les Misérables. Photo : OSV News / Universal Studio.

In the musical Les Misérables, there’s a particularly haunting song, sung by a dying woman (Fantine) who has been crushed by virtually every unfairness life can deal a person. Abandoned by her husband, sexually harassed by her employer, caught in abject poverty, physically ill and dying, even as her main anxiety is about what will…

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