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Everett had always been the strong one. Now his wife, Carol, has to be the strong one. She tries to comfort him by recalling some of their favorite memories: How she had to tap him on the shoulder to breathe during their first kiss; How he dumped their drinks, hot dogs and popcorn at the drive in theater because someone tapped into his front bumper; and, How he made a fool of himself chasing the culprit to the front gate, in his stocking feet.

At the age of twelve Everett contracted a crippling disease that caused his knees and ankles to swell outrageously. He had a constant high fever and the only way he could control the debilitating pain was to constantly swing his legs and twist his ankles. The pain was almost more than a young man could bear so he cried most of the time.

It was always worse in the evening at the dinner table. It was absolutely impossible for him to sit still and even harder for him to stop crying. Infuriated, mother yelled at him until she could yell no more, then she yelled at dad to, "Get him out of here!" That's when dad would beat him with his leather belt, with the brass buckle, to give him "something to cry about". When dad was exhausted, and Everett was hysterically crying, dad sent him to bed until morning with these words, "Stop crying! Men don't cry!"

As Everett grew up, raised a family of his own and faced extreme health and spiritual issues, he realized that men don't cry without really having something to cry about. To this day, Everett hides his feelings when he hurts. After all, he doesn't have anything to cry about, he's a man."