She is a young lady and she is always crying to me.

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But here she is, crying out my name and wanting to know where I have been.

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If her teenage boy is crying in his room, should she go in and comfort him, or will this embarrass and shame him?

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She has been inconsolably depressed, crying all the time, and so angry that her life as she knows it is over.

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Captain Kelly does not seem like the kind of person who is easily fazed, but recently she's found herself crying, driving down the street listening to the radio, even when she recounts small decisions, like the one to have her husband stay in the city during the storm.

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When asked why she wasn't weeping, Lu Sui responded, ""Because the rest of the team is crying, and besides, if I cry, I will mess up my make-up.

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"Though I don't think anyone should cry on purpose, a spontaneous cry is only damaging to the person who feels they are weak because they are crying, " she says.

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Everyone Is Crying Out to Me is a vehicle for Simone's own rediscovery of the culture she left behind, as well as a way for her to share that culture with Americans who have no understanding or knowledge of it.

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