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Tears of Joy

Tears of Joy? Honestly, I can't remember shedding tears of joy for myself. That's just not something I do.

I may have shed some tears of joy when watching certain movies or reading certain books. Like Cindy just mentioned that she's not a Trekkie. Well, that made me think of Star Trek:Generations. That's the one where Kirk died at the end, but I didn't cry when Kirk died. Honestly, I cried a little while later when Data's cat, Spot, turned out to be Okay.

For a more classic example of a movie that made me shed tears of joy, there's It's a Wonderful Life which I saw in a movie theater a few Christmases ago. By the time, Jimmy Stuart said, "Attaboy, Clarence," there were some tears in my eyes.

I also just recently read Harpo Marx's autobiography, Harpo Speaks. I really loved the chapter where he tells about how he and his wife adopted four children, and how they told the children they were adopted early on, through a bedtime story about how they needed those children and so they looked everywhere. It's real tear jerker.