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ACTIONTAMMY FAYE'S REACTION
 Parents went to see "The   "I cried and cried" ("Me", p.27)
 "Ten Commandments"  
   
 Fears abandonment by parents   "I don't know how many days of my life
    I spent crying." ("Run", p.27)
   
 Misses her mother   "One day Jim found me behind the door
    sobbing." ("Me", p.49)
   
 Hears parents arguing   "I'd just sob and cry." ("Run", p.27)
   
 Discourteous houseguests   "Many a Sunday I would hear my mother cry and
 drop by   cry. I'd cry also..." ("Me", p.34)
   
 Unexpected guests drop by   "Tears sprang into my eyes..." ("Me", p.136)
   
 Announcing she is quitting   "I burst out crying." ("Me", p.39)
 job at Woolworth's  
   
 Quits job   "In between sobs..." ("Me", p.39)
   
 Wets pants at work   "I ran out of work just sobbing" ("Me", p.49)
   
 Leaves childhood sweetheart,   "I was crying so loud..." ("Me", p.40)
 Ken  
   
 Thinking about Ken   "I got a job at the Three Sisters Clothing
    Store. While I was working I would go back
    to the dressing room and cry, then I'd go out
    and sell some more clothes. I'd go back to the
    dressing room and cry a while longer and then go
    sell some more clothes." ("Me", p.41)
   
 Gets married   "Tears were coming down my cheeks." ("Me", p.)
   
 Told she is loved   "Tears ran down my face." ("Me", p.136)
   
 Jim ignores her   "One day I went to Pat crying." ("Me", p.70)
   
 In-laws dislike her   "I would cry over this sometimes." ("Me", p.116)
   
 Father-in-law teases her   "I was so tender hearted and would end up crying
    most of the time." ("Me", p.116)
   
 Overcomes fear of Jim's   "I had to pray and cry and scream... I cried..."
 infidelity   ("Run", p.47)
   
 Jim doesn't want to adopt   "I spent one whole night sobbing." ("Me", p.75)
 a child  
   
 Birth of son, Jamie Charles   "I just started crying..." ("Me", p.115)
   
 Birth of daughter, Tammy Sue   "I was crying and couldn't quit." ("Me", p.77)
   
 Experiences postpartum   "One night just before bedtime, Grandma found me
 depression   in the kitchen crying." ("Me", p.78)
   
 Death threats made against   "I started sobbing and crying." ("Run", p.15)
 children  
   
 Concerned for emotional state  "The tears began to flow." ("Run", p.15)
 of children  
   
 Contemplates accompanying   "I would stop and cry..." ("Me", p.40)
 postman's crippled son to  
 Minneapolis  
   
 Dislikes a woman   "I sobbed." ("Me", p.78)
   
 Decides to love disliked   "I still felt a tear well up in my eyes."
 woman   ("Me", p.88)
   
 Becomes aware that Jesus   "If I want to cry, I'm going to cry."
 created her   ("Me", p.138)
   
 Hears story of David and   "Tears came streaming down my cheeks."
 Goliath   ("Run", p.17)
   
 God tells her she will go to   "I just burst out sobbing. I sobbed and sobbed
 Heaven   and sobbed..." ("Run", p.33)
   
 Voice tells her she has   "I was sobbing at the alter..." ("Me", p.58)
 sinned against Holy Ghost  
   
 Sings "How Big is God"   "I put my head down on my accordian and began
    to cry... Everybody started crying, including
    Jim." ("Me", p.57)
   
 Jim uninterested in church   "I would cry over this and began to withdraw."
    ("Me", p.50)
   
   
 Jim tells her church is   "I went there and cried and cried..."
 unnecessary   ("Me", p.51)
   
 Told that "Jim and Tammy   "We were in tears." ("Me", p.86)
 Show" is bad  
   
 Sees a rerun of their show   "We sobbed until we almost couldn't stand it."
    ("Me", p.90)
   
 Fears next day's television   "I cried. I sobbed all night long." ("Me", p.61)
 appearance  
   
 God tells Jim to stop show   "We left that day in tears." ("Me", p.90)
   
 Experiences claustrophobia   "I started crying." ("Run", p.27)
   
 Imagines car being swept off   "I would lie down between the seats screaming -
 the bridge   sobbing..." ("Run", p.25)
   
 Drives car into ditch   "I started screaming uncontrollably."
    ("Run", p.57)
   
 RV destroyed in crash   "I cried until I couldn't cry anymore."
    ("Me", p.57)
   
 Flees to Florida   "I cried..." ("Run", p.13)
   
 Attends funeral of family   "We all cried and cried." ("Me", p.529)
 dog, Smokey  
   
 Death of dog, Chi Chi   "I cried and cried." ("Me", p.74)
   
 Spills glass of milk   "My first thought was to just fall apart and
    cry." ("Me", p.67)

This material is from Tammy Faye Bakker's books "I Gotta Be Me" ("Me")
and "Run to the Roar" ("Run")

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