We ended up using the vacuum quite often until my daughter, mercifully, stopped her frantic crying weeks later.
Some of those jobs are so easy they are boring, and some are so hard we end up in a corner crying each week.
The Fitzroy Stars will carry the conversation started by Adam Goodes into the Northern Football League, and by doing so, may well be the first ever club to perform a war-cry week-in, week-out.
Lying in the hospital, he spent a week crying.
"I have been crying for weeks," said Youa Vang, a distant cousin of the general who buried her soldier husband almost 40 years ago in their Laotian mountain village.
"She cried the week before and the week after.
It felt like the whole city was crying for weeks afterwards.
And we can't be crying for a week also.
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A blizzard had dumped five feet of snow on the city, and the bride "cried every week" thereafter through the first year of her new life.
