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mopinko

(70,205 posts) Wed Jan 20, 2021, 01:15 PM Jan 2021

oh fuck. amazing grace.

i was already in tears, damn it.

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oh fuck. amazing grace. (Original Post) mopinko Jan 2021 OP

4 years of pent up frustration coiming out of my tear ducts. tinrobot Jan 2021 #1

Amazing Grace always makes me tear up. ProudMNDemocrat Jan 2021 #2

ps- best version ever- mopinko Jan 2021 #3

Just knowing it is going to be sung... 3catwoman3 Jan 2021 #4

tinrobot

(10,914 posts)

1. 4 years of pent up frustration coiming out of my tear ducts.

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Wed Jan 20, 2021, 01:17 PM

Jan 2021

Where are the tissues?

ProudMNDemocrat

(16,789 posts)

2. Amazing Grace always makes me tear up.

Reply to mopinko (Original post)

Wed Jan 20, 2021, 01:21 PM

Jan 2021

Hearing it played on Bagpipes gets me every time. It was played at my sister' s funeral in 2006 over the PA system .

i cried then as I did at the end of the film of the same name, when bagpipes played it front of Westminster Abbey where William Wilberforce is buried.

mopinko

(70,205 posts)

3. ps- best version ever-

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Wed Jan 20, 2021, 01:22 PM

Jan 2021

3catwoman3

(24,035 posts)

4. Just knowing it is going to be sung...

Reply to mopinko (Original post)

Wed Jan 20, 2021, 02:05 PM

Jan 2021

...makes my throat tighten up and my eyes well up.

And bagpipes - instant waterworks.

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