Word: sorrowfully
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...boyfriend Dan Schmidt at work and told him everything -- that the baby she had just given up for adoption had been his all along. She began having second thoughts. She went to a support-group meeting of Concerned United Birthparents and heard other mothers' stories of the sorrow they felt at giving up their babies. On March 6 Cara filed a motion to get her daughter back, and a week later Dan did as well. Cara went out shopping for baby clothes...
...children lingering in foster care, or under the roofs of parents who abandoned them every way but physically years before, who would envy a child whose presence is so precious to those around her. But right now it is hard to feel anything for Jessica other than enormous sorrow, and hope that her own resilience and the devotion of so many who wish her well will give her the strength to cope...
...review in The Crimson singled out Toomer as the show's star: "Especially notable is Toomer, whose vibrant voice resonates with emotions ranging from anger to sorrow to resigned defiance within a few bars, giving the character of Elizabeth admirable depth...
...imagine a hundred Vietnam Memorials arrayed on the Mall. The earth would sink beneath the weight of such sorrow. Yet it would take that many Vietnam Memorials to list the names of those killed in the Holocaust. And it would still not be enough. There would still be nearly 200,000 left uncommemorated, more than have died of AIDS in America in all the years of the plague...
...murderer. The narrator is obsessed with the particular mazurka that Gaudencio Beira, the blind accordion player at the local brothel, performs only upon these two occasions. Gaudencio's widowed sister, Adega, contributes her recollections and opinions on matters of life, death, magic and incidental gossip. "Some deaths brings sorrow but there are also those that bring great joy...." she notes at one point. "When I was a slip of a girl in Bouza da Fondo there was a hanged man so stone dead that the youngsters were able to swing to and fro from his feet...