David Hasselhoff
American actor, singer, and television personality
This morning, reading a memorial card I wrote for my mother.
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I cry a lot at films; my mother and I were champion criers at Meet Me in St Louis.
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I cry all the time, it’s an embarrassment.
On Monday in therapy.
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I have wet eyes sometimes, but I cried all my tears in my youth.
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Not to be able to do the things that you take for granted, like running up the tube steps or going somewhere under your own steam.
I’m trying to write my will and I keep changing my mind.
Complaining about the weather, because there’s nothing you can do about it. There’s no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing.
Impatient, funny, worrier.
A driver or a helicopter.
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