Betty Mann, our beloved community historian, is a self-proclaimed crier.
“I cry at the drop of a hat,” she says. “I cry when I’m sad, I cry when I’m glad and I cry when I’m mad.”
She said if her husband encountered her in tears, he’d ask, “What is it this time?”
She jokes about her tears, but as a self-proclaimed non-crier I’m a bit jealous, because I’ve learned the benefits of a good cry.
I…
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