crier

"My mum cried when she found out... and she's not crier. She was so happy, because she knows it's my dream festival."

He continued dance-walking down the long city block, the time-traveling Black town crier was waking up all those who would listen.

“I’m a weird crier with movies. Like I won’t cry after I won the Super Bowl. I didn't cry when my kids were born,” he said.

Instead of caroling and ringing church bells, the most prominent sounds on Christmastide were now town criers calling: "No Christmas! No Christmas!"

“I am not a pretty crier,” she said.