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“I nearly wept on more than one occasion because of how moved I felt about what Justin was doing,” Jesso says.

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"I wept non-stop for a whole month. I couldn't eat. All I did was cry. I couldn't stand to walk. And I fell gravely ill."

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Brandt wept and held his hands over his face after the verdicts were returned.

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Relatives wept openly, clutching phones and identity cards, while medical teams hurried stretchers through the packed corridors.

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In Penha Complex -- one of two densely populated, working-class neighborhoods targeted in northern Rio -- residents wept over a line of at least 50 corpses early Wednesday.

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