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And while we may not empathise with their sitcom plight (to have a need for each other against their better judgement – Steptoe and Son without the age gap perhaps?) we can eventually sympathise with them in the face of what the television historian Dick Fiddy describes as the "anarchy" of the characters around them, such as the erratic Super Hans and the eccentric Big Suze.
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Nonetheless, Serpa eventually found himself sympathising with the character of Crowe - a washed-up musician who disowns his biggest album as "the sound of someone having his fingernails pulled out".
While funny at first, Bart slowly learns to sympathise with Edna's predicament, before eventually seeing her crying alone in the restaurant where she'd arranged to meet Woodrow.
The pressure for an heir eventually reaches breaking point, and it's difficult not to sympathise, even if you're not a teenage girl viewer.
She found an agent who sympathised with her desire not to write a "phony memoir" and eventually landed a publishing deal.
Although one does not automatically sympathise with the group, the comic twists maintain the intrigue and the reader wants to know what will eventually happen to this group of unfortunates.
I sympathise.
Gastronomes sympathise.
We sympathise.
You sympathise.
Sympathise, but not identify.
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