Nnamabia was staring at his yellow-orange rice as he spoke, and when he looked up his eyes were filled with tears, my worldly brother, and I felt a tenderness for him that I would not have been able to describe if I had been asked to.

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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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But when I stood in front of the workers and looked into the eyes of the men and women I talked to and worked with every day, tears filled my eyes.

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Let him curse and I remember him falling down the cellar steps, and howling, and I remember, with pain, his tears, which my hand or your grandmother's so easily wiped away.

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"When coach told me about my mom then I just broke down with tears of sadness, " Leo said.

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"But I couldn't hold myself back: I had to go in, it was my daughter, " says Tarannum, wiping her tears with her sari.

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