June 12, 2000    
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What makes you cry?

Beauty, grandeur, chivalry and pathos. There is a sorrow that lies too deep for tears. I can also weep bitter tears from frustration and hopelessness.

Jill, 59
Saylorsburg,
PA

A lot of things, I am weepy! Sad movies (especially when they kill the dog). Like my boyfriend is always amazed when I cry at the end of Big Daddy, that just breaks my heart! Weddings, funerals (eulogies especially), good books, laughing too hard, the drop of a hat. You name it, I'll shed a tear!

Kathy, 26
Garden City,
MI

Just about anything, really: books, movies, people, sometimes even songs. I'm extremely emotional. For example, in the movie Titanic, I cried the entire second half of the film. I cried so loud, in fact, that people 4 and 5 rows behind me could hear me and were shushing me. I cried so loud, my parents, who were 6 rows behind us, started making fun of the girl crying so loud. "It's your daughter," my godmother said. "No way," my dad said. "Amy? Crying in a film like that?" *grin* Hi dad.

Amy, 23
Baton Rouge,
LA

Right now, just about everything makes me cry. I just graduated and it's one of those weird times in life.

Elizabeth, 18
Rochester,
MN

Nothing can make me cry easier than if I really loose my temper. But, I have to be furious for it to happen. A lot of times when I really need to cry I can not.

Pamela, 38
Sugar Hill,
GA

EVERYTHING! I am one of the most emotional persons on this planet!! A good Hallmark commercial can get me going...sad, but true!

Tracy, 24
Ocean City,
NJ

I cry when I see people acting horribly and nobly to one another. Any extreme emotion, anger, love, frustration will result in tears. An act of kindness towards me will also illicit tears as much as someone dismissing me.

Felicia, 34
Somerville,
MA

Fighting with my fiancee, hearing stories on the news about children being hurt, anything bad happening to my family.

Nicole
Elk Grove, CA

Genocide, Extinction, Slavery, Suffering, Racism, & Hate are Evil. To cry is to ask "Why" with your soul. A picture of a 4 year old boy with his jaw removed by someone trying to  punish his mother. It was the most Evil thing I ever came across online. He died bravely still holding his hands together. Many things affect us and I created a song for all people who dare to Cry.

ONLY ANGELS CRY
by Jami A. Rodger

I wrote for you a lullaby
you lost your wings when you arrived
go back to sleep and close your eyes
darling, only angels cry

Drifting on a cloud of air
dreaming you can fly again
you fell to Earth and realized
darling, only angels fly

Shining only once a day
the moon will chase the sun in vain
in time, the moon lost all his light
angles don't believe in time

Once, I was alone you see
heaven sent you down to me
when all your dreams have gone away
darling, that's when angels pray

Drifting on a cloud of air
one day we will fly again
be careful how you see your life
darling, only angels cry
darling, only angels cry

Jami, 27
Lowell,
MA

Any cruelty to animals makes me cry.

Ernest, 28
Washington,
DC

A certain someone who knows who he is. And sometimes I just cry for no reason or for the smallest things. It must be something to do with me being 15, I guess.

Shanna, 15
Cardiff ENGLAND

Everything!! I am a very emotional person.....
Disney movies, a sad goodbye, just about anything,
even happy stuff can make me cry!!

Katie, 24
Seminole,
FL

The end of Iron Giant. 6 times now it has left me blubbering.

Anthony, 25
Baton Rouge,
LA

Sappy commercials, any wedding (I don't even have to know the people!), good books, sad movies, and everytime my husband tries to dance.

Susan, 31
Chicago,
IL

I don't cry that often, but I guess when I am disappointed in myself - when I do something that hurts other people and I don't mean to. When I fail at things that are important to me, like relationships. Sometimes I cry at the end of movies, but my father always told me that crying was for sissies and only if you are bleeding profusely do you have a reason to cry. I guess that has stuck with me.

Kate, 19
Bellingham,
WA

Sometimes it's my parents, and sometimes it's people at school,  but I really don't cry often.

Jeremy, 13
Highlands Ranch,
CO

Just about anything can make me cry. AT&T commercials can make me cry!

I cry out of frustration, sadness and anger.
I cry because of the injustices that surround me.
I cry when I am touched by another's sadness.
I cry when I read/watch/witness something that exemplifies the very best ofhumanity.

Laura, 35
Lowell
, MA

I cry when I am very angry.

Jane, 60
West Linn,
OR

pain, memories of ex-boyfriends, losing a good friend, realizing i'll never see someone again

Angela, 16
Bella Vista,
AK

This guy I know, mostly. My frustration at him and others because they stick with the bad stuff they have like stubborn glue and won't take the good stuff when it's staring them in the face. My sadness at watching the most beautiful thing in the world fall through my fingers, at being unable to catch it. My longing for a simple life in the mountains with everything clean and pure and untouched. But hey, why waste time on tears right now? I'm having the time of my life. . .

Karen, 20
Marshelltown/Ames,
IA

allergies.

Alias Irrelevante

Disney movies. My mother could die, my house burn down, I could get cancer, and I'd probably go through a horible depression, but I don't know if I'd cry. However, disney movies for some reason make me get emotional.

Socrates One
Lowell, MA

you

Janet, 42
E. Brunswick,
NJ

Anything and Everything, it really depends how I feel.

Nikki, 27
Kirkham ENGLAND

The though of losing someone close to me. My own self pity.

Firelady, 22
Dallas
, TX

Yesterday / Tomorrow