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Author’s Note

This book began five years ago with an idle idea about what it might look like to make a map of every place I’d ever cried, an idea I carried into conversation with friends, not knowing how many years and pages would grow around it, not knowing how that growth would change the way I view tears.

These pages are a record of that time, of what I learned. And go on learning.

Throughout this work, when I have talked with my friends about crying, I have felt the gifts of their intelligence, compassion, humor, and patience. It would have been, I think, impossible to write this book without their company. Their names appear in these pages informally, as they do in my mind and our conversations.

Of the many circumstances in my life for which I feel gratitude, these friendships shine with a particular brightness. They make me look eagerly to the future, to imagine all the conversations to come.