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What most recently made you cry?

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Read by field Everyone Arts and letters 172 Politics and public life 4 Business and finance 3 Technology 1 Sport 13
Read by age Any age Before thirty 7 In their thirties 32 In their forties 38 In their fifties 51 In their sixties 31 Seventy and beyond 29
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Ed Harris American actor and director
Couple of days ago, reading a thank-you note my parents had left after we celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary in Wyoming.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 August 2007 source ↗
Cybill Shepherd American actress and former model
Yesterday: my old dog, Kim, has cancer, and I have to let him die now.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 June 2008 source ↗
David Hasselhoff American actor, singer, and television personality
This morning, reading a memorial card I wrote for my mother.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 April 2009 source ↗
Julie Delpy French actress and filmmaker
I cried a few days ago because I couldn't face moving my stuff out of my house because of termites. I cried out of exhaustion from trying to make it so they wouldn't get termite gas on everything, especially my kid's stuff. I cried at the end of the day.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 June 2013 source ↗
John Cooper Clarke English poet
Singing Abide With Me at the funeral of Bruce Reynolds [ringleader of the Great Train Robbery], March 2013.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 July 2013 source ↗
Ben Kingsley English actor
For a film called Eliza Graves. It hasn't been released yet, but then again they might have edited that weeping sequence out.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 November 2013 source ↗
Meg Rosoff American novelist
In August, when my middle sister called to tell me her breast cancer had spread to her spine, pelvis and bones. It turned out not to be true.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 November 2013 source ↗
Mary Berry English food writer and television presenter
I had a little weep with joy 11 years ago when Thomas and Sarah had their IVF twins, safe and sound and perfect.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 November 2013 source ↗
June Brown English actress and author
I have wet eyes sometimes, but I cried all my tears in my youth.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 December 2013 source ↗

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