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I was feeling fairly tough and moderately tearless until sorting night.

One or two news photos would show her with swollen eyes, but tearless.

During the six-hour flight back to London I sat bolt upright, tearless and unable to eat, drink or even visit the loo.

We see mothers in fierce, tearless overdrive, like figures from Shakespearean tragedy.

Often when I held him, he cried, a thin, desperate, tearless wail.