He collapsed on the floor, crying as hard as he had after Lance Cpl.

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At one point in the proceedings, when photographs were introduced showing a smiling Mr. Valle with his now-17-month-old daughter, Ms. Mangan-Valle was crying so hard that U.S. District Court Judge Paul Gardephe allowed her to step down from the witness stand to compose herself.

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How hard will he be crying?

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"It's really hard, you know there are lots of people in there crying now, it's such a sad time, " he said.

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North Carolina coach Roy Williams said in his 2009 memoir "Hard Work" that he tried to talk himself out of crying years earlier when he was the University of Kansas coach.

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"It was really hard for me for about 45 minutes when I was on the bus crying and stuff, " Smith said.

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