Failing at the No-Cry Challenge with only happy tears

After Sue of Happy Meals & Happy Hour recently issued a No-Cry Challenge in which she put up a couple of YouTube videos of songs to make her readers cry, my wife “outed” me on Twitter that the following song makes me cry:

So I’ll own up to it here publicly. I just hear the first two lines (actually just half of the first line, who am I kidding?):

When somebody loved me, everything was beautiful
Every hour we spent together, lives within my heart

and here I am:

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(It’s true. I become James Van Der Beek. It’s weird.)

All I could think of when I first saw this movie was all the toys I had abandoned as a child, including a teddy bear named Harry that belonged to my father when he was a child and which now I don’t know where he is — waaaahhhh, waaaaaaah, waaaaaah.

Harry looked like this:

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I’m sorry, seeing that picture, I don’t know if I can write anymore tonight as I’m becoming a little verklempt…

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But as Brad and Dolly sing: Yeah, when I get where I’m going, there’ll be only happy tears.

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This post was originally posted at unfinished rambling(s).

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