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    Sympathy & compassion

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    • a good listener idiom
    • a shoulder to cry on idiom
    • aw
    • bad/hard/tough luck! idiom
    • better
    • better luck next time idiom
    • bleeding heart
    • cheese
    • cloud
    • commiserate
    • commiseration
    • compassion
    • compassionate
    • condole
    • condolence
    • consolation
    • crying
    • every cloud has a silver lining idiom
    • feel
    • feel for sb
    • fellow feeling
    • go
    • go out to sb
    • hard
    • hard luck! idiom
    • hard/tough cheese! idiom
    • heart
    • heartrending
    • it's a crying shame idiom
    • listener
    • luck
    • my heart bleeds for sb idiom
    • now
    • now, now idiom
    • oops-a-daisy
    • pathetic
    • pathos
    • piteous
    • pitiable
    • pitiful
    • pity
    • poor
    • relate
    • relate to sb
    • sad
    • sensitive
    • sensitivity
    • shoulder
    • solace
    • sympathetic
    • sympathize
    • sympathy
    • sympathy vote
    • tea
    • tea and sympathy idiom
    • tender-hearted
    • there
    • there, there idiom
    • too
    • too bad idiom
    • understand
    • understanding
    • your heart aches idiom
    • your heart goes out to sb idiom

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