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What books, or parts of books, have brought you to tears?

For me, it would be Ch.19, the pivotal chapter, in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.

I think it was because I empathized with Pip's mixed feelings about leaving home after years of suffering abuse from his sister. He felt exactly as I felt when I left home at the age of 18 after years of abuse from the Wicked Witch of West Hollywood (AKA my mother).
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The Road by Cormac McCarthy.

About a man trying to look after his young son after the world has ended. Everything is slowly and inevitably dying, but he has to keep this one tiny boy alive.