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"Are tears a good barometer?" I say sometimes. I know that there are certain topics, events, happenings in a book that will make me cry because of my own deep fears or life experiences (like a child being abused, or death of a parent for instance) no matter how well or poorly written the book is, but then there are those other tears when I am so moved by the marvel of a phrase turned just so or an author's way of putting into words something I can only feel. Those are the times I want to name it weeping rather than crying.

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