tears

“I didn’t even know what a dad was until Jime came along. My sister didn’t come along until years later,” she said, referring to Valdez’s biological daughter as tears streamed down her face.

She said: ''We see proud people coming here in tears.

He was in tears afterwards and again soon after when holding his three-year-old son, George.

Editor Rachel Johnson was a firm believer in not being too familiar with staff, writing: "Never sit in the kitchen chatting to your nanny, it'll end in tears before bedtime."

Her memoir offered an intimate account of the ways that grief tears us away from normalcy.