How Phil Connors Broke Out of the Groundhog Day and Lost His Shadow

Phil Connors is a man under the weather who is not aware of his own shadow.

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I would never have thought that there was something in Groundhog Day that I didn’t know. I thought I knew the movie by heart. Apparently, I didn’t. To memorize something means to commit something to memory; to learn something by heart means to commit something to the heart.

As my wife and I watched the first few minutes of the movie last ni…