Thomas Constantine Moore Special for USA TODAY If you’d told me a year ago that a song from a goofy comedy featuring Will Ferrell would get me through the most painful summer of my life, I would have laughed. What other reaction would be appropriate? It turns out the answer to that question is tears. Many of them. The number in question is "Husavik (My Hometown)," nominated for best original song at this year’s Academy Awards. Its performance is the climax of Netflix's “Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga,” which arrived late last June ... 19 days after I loaded my belongings into a U-Haul and left behind my partner, my dog and the apartment we’d lived in together for nearly two years. The details of the breakup are not terribly important. A series of successive hurts that never quite healed pushed an otherwise good relationship between two fundamentally decent humans to an end. To quote poet Richard Siken, “This is a very old story.”