"I thought at one point he was going to cry, it was almost child like, he was squeezing his face as a child would to produce tears", she said.

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My dream was to apply to universities with my friends as well as cry tears of joy when we threw our graduation hats in the air.

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Or the outbursts take the form of tears. (And no, not just from women.) People sometimes cry in response to negative feedback or out of sheer aggravation.

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