Task: Question Answering
Input (English): Context: I started going by Rae instead of Rachel shortly before eighth grade graduation . After all this , after my great escape and the opportunity to reinvent myself , my sister goes and gets herself killed . At the memorial service , these girls , who had just in the previous year relished every opportunity to see me cry , came up to me and professed their never - ending friendship . 
Question: What are the girls trying to express?
Output (English): Sympathy.