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Were there any films, or books, that, in hindsight, anyone feels had a significant influence on them growing up such that they may have, in some small way, have shaped their lives?

"The Heart Shaped Bullet" by Kathryn Flett.
It's about her failed marriage, but how the relationship after that tipped her over the edge when that, too, failed.

Found today on the grassy drift alongside the hay field: a buzzard feather, probably from the chest.

The one I found the other day is still in the car.

I would think he will. Crystallography is a method of determining the exact 3d structure of molecules. Have you heard of Dorothy Hodgkin or Rosalind Franklin? they were women pioneers in the field.

Were there any films, or books, that, in hindsight, anyone feels had a significant influence on them growing up such that they may have, in some small way, have shaped their lives?

Yes! As an only child i read all the boarding school books I could find and day dreamed about being part of the midnight feasts and lacrosse matches. However the books that really impacted me were the Chalet School books. I desperately wanted to go to a multilingual boarding school somewhere in the middle of Europe. In a funny kind of way it did happen for me minus the boarding bit.