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“Actual males do not cry”.
“My vital different misplaced his childhood good friend a number of months in the past. I can nonetheless see that six-foot-tall man standing within the door, shaking with quivering lips and preventing again his tears as a result of ‘Males do not cry and must be sturdy.’
I informed him, ‘Not for me, honey. You are my associate. You are allowed to be unhappy, disheartened, and to indicate weak point. I will by no means assume much less of you since you grieve the lack of somebody you really liked.'”