Jennsen tearfully hugged the goat before standing to face her brother.

She was overjoyed and tearfully hugged me, appreciative of my sharing this moment.

It's there at the Central Park carousel, where one quiet morning I saw a couple tearfully hugging and whooping.

As thousands of the long-separated families tearfully hugged each other, the day quickly turned into a cross between a county carnival and a political protest.

Some weeks later, she was baptized and tearfully hugged to cries of hallelujah.

Her anger spent, she stood again and tearfully hugged Owen.

Through the windows in the ER doors, I caught a glimpse of Eunice Mercer and one of their teenage daughters, tearfully hugging in the corridor.

Clementina Lopez, Mrs. Caban's mother, tearfully hugged neighbors.

"It's heartbreaking," Mrs. Seifert, 41, said Friday afternoon as she tearfully hugged her students at the Waterfront Elementary School.

Aris Torres, a counselor for the families who has worked with many of them since the day after the fire, looked like everyone's relative as she tearfully hugged and kissed her charges.