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She also paid tribute to her late grandfather, the catalyst of her dreams, in the tear-jerking elegy “Querido Abuelo.”

"Some of the messages on them are quite tear-jerking actually. There's some where somebody has lost their child very young, there's one that's a stillborn child, so it's quite emotional."

Along the way she experienced gorgeous scenery, visa problems, an underground community of African bikers, lone rides through "scary" forests and an epic, tear-jerking homecoming celebration.

To say that Samm-Art Williams’s 1979 play “Home” is old-fashioned is to say that “The Odyssey” and “The Wizard of Oz” are too: They are all tear-jerking stories about lost souls working their way back to the proverbial place where the heart is.

Now in its 25th year, the special — presented in partnership with the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption and the Children’s Action Network — boasts of a tear-jerking lineup: Lauren Daigle, Gavin DeGraw, David Foster and Katharine McPhee, Pentatonix and CeCe Winans will take on holiday classics.