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my heart bleeds for you
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I don't feel at all sorry for you, I don't sympathize, as in You only got a five percent raise? My heart bleeds for you . Originating in the late 1300s, this hyperbolic expression of sympathy has been used ironically since the mid-1700s.Advertisement
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