"This Song Brought Me to Tears!"

“His first reaction was pure emotion, and then a hundred questions: how did you do this, where did you find it, whose idea was it? At the party the guests nearly knew it by heart, because he insisted on playing it for every single one of them. Our youngest eventually started turning the speaker off. He kept saying it: in forty years he'd never experienced anything like it.”

“I'm not good with words, so I put everything into the quiz: the café where we met, the way she hums when she cooks, the trip where it rained for a week. I played it for her in the car on our anniversary. Halfway through the first chorus she put her hand on my arm and just said 'how?' She's sent it to every friend she has.”

“Everyone cried. My husband fought it the entire time I was recording, jaw clenched, but when the last note played he couldn't hold it in anymore. Then he asked me to play it again, and this time he didn't even try to hide it.”

“My mom raised three of us on her own, and I never really told her what that meant to me. The song said it for me: the early shifts, the Sunday pancakes, the way she still calls to check if I ate. She listened with her hand over her mouth and didn't say anything until it ended. Then she said, 'You remembered all of that?' and we both cried.”

“He cried, that's how much it meant to him. I didn't record it, I was too nervous to watch him hear it, so I hid in the next room. By the end he was in tears. It hit him that hard.”