Today was the 1 year anniversary of my cousin's death. We had a zoom meeting to speak in his memory so there were quite a lot of tears.

Among the males it was only the boomer generation that cried. But among the females there were tears from four of my cousins, who are all quite pretty women. I could not actually see the tears over the video quality, and they kept wiping their eyes with tissues. All four spoke until their voices began to break, but kept talking. One had a trembling chin at one point. I know at least two of them are lip curlers, but they stayed composed.

My cousin's widow started to speak but then broke down into her MIL's chest. I couldn't bare to look at her so no observations.

My wife broke into tears a few times, and started wiping her face with tissues. At one point she turned to me and I saw two tears running from her right eye.