In retrospect, I was a sad little boy and a standard-issue, shiftless, egotistical, dejected teen-ager.

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Kind of sad all around: boy-meets-girl, boy-loses-girl, girl-revealed-to-be-avatar-created-by-another-boy.

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"Every time I hear Danny Boy I reach for a tissue because it makes me so sad, " he added.

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The man we see is sad and vulnerable and ferocious all at once frightened as a virtually parentless boy in Brooklyn who was robbed by neighborhood kids, then remorseless as a baby gangster robbing drug dealers.

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Kenny Dalglish, who was manager of Liverpool on the day of the Hillsborough disaster, said her death was "really sad but for her a release from her suffering and a chance to see her boy again".

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