re: As a man, do you cry?

Only tears of joy...

Same.

I cried freely when my parents died. I've gotten misty from a few movies. I have zero doubt I would cry like a baby if my brother or my daughter were to die before me.

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Damn straight

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We might know each other.

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It was just a reflex to call my dad. And that's what finally made me "lose it".

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For many years, after Dad passed away in 1993, I would see something, hear something, or run into an engineering problem I could use help with and my first instinct was to call Dad at the office. More than once I had already punched a couple numbers into the phone and then suddenly realized that he was no longer there to take my call. It's a very empty feeling for a few moments.

Mom passed away three years ago and it's similar. I used to call her with some regularity on my two-hour commute through ATL traffic in the afternoons. Yeah, I still almost make those calls too.

21-0 helped a lot of men

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Probably.

Had season tickets since 87

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Crying ain't shite to do with being a man!

My best friend died when I was 21. I was pallbearer and I was a wreck at the funeral. My grandpa dying when I was 12 is my first memory of losing someone, but one of my peers who was like a sibling to me, losing them at the beginning of adulthood changed me. Over the years I’ve lost friends and family and rarely shed a tear. I’ve learned at a young age that death is the hardest part of living. And the older we get the more we’ll experience it. May as well embrace the inescapable. I will probably lose it when my mom checks out though.