Freed From Behind The Paywall: Why Can't I Cry Anymore?

When The Tears Run Out.

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It sounds odd, but once I prided myself on my ability to cry.  Men, so we were informed, suppressed their emotions, kept them battened down in the face of all vicissitude. To behave otherwise was to be labelled a cry-baby. Whereas I was lachrymosity personified.

I cried in front of the editor when I quit my first job ( at …