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‘Mom, I Just Can’t Take the Crying’

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When my nephew was about four or five, his best friend was a little girl of the same age. My sister and the girl’s mother were friends, so the two kids grew up together. My nephew was and is a sensitive child in many ways. He has always shared his toys, stopped to help other kids on the playground who were in trouble, and worried about people around him who seemed upset. But one day, when his friend was in tears about something while the moms and kids were on an outing, he just walked away. My sister went over to him and said, “What’s wrong?” He said, “Mom, I just can’t take the crying.” You can call it socialization, and I believe that has something to do with it, but I think it’s more than that. I’ve written about crying and testosterone before, but the subject continues to come

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Community significance

“‘Mom, I Just Can’t Take the Crying’” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to culture, identity, and representation, while also engaging interpretive analysis. Such accounts can document how an issue was understood and experienced from within the period or community being discussed.

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As a publication record from 2011 at Transadvocate.com, “‘Mom, I Just Can’t Take the Crying’” provides dated evidence of how culture, identity, and representation was being argued in relation to interpretive analysis. Comparing it with earlier and later records can reveal changes in vocabulary, evidence, and emphasis.

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