"Every time my grandmother spoke about my uncle - even if it was 20 years later - she would cry, " he said.

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She would cry and ask him not to speak of such things, and at those moments he felt that she, too, genuinely loved him, something that he often doubted, despite her professions of love.

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"I thought this would bring my mother and I together, but all she did was cry and cry, " Danielle remembers.

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"There were blocks and times and periods in which we would talk and then it would end, " but he offered her a "shoulder to cry on" when she told him her father had died.

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