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• Needing buoying
• Lacking mirth
• Like McCullers' café
• Lacking joy
• Teary-eyed, perhaps
• Needing a hug, maybe
• Unlike a good excuse
• In need of heartening
• Tear-jerking
• Replete with regret
• Thoroughly blue
• Tearjerking
• Doleful
• Like McCullers' café
• Like may tears