'Fault In Our Stars' Fans Mourn Augustus Waters on Day of His 'Death'

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Ansel Elgort, left, played "The Fault in Our Stars" character Augustus Waters -- who fans mourned on Wednesday.

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By Josh Dickey2014-07-02 21:56:24 UTC

Will the crying over The Fault in Our Stars ever stop?

On Wednesday, fans of the John Green cancer drama — now a majorly weepy motion picture — were openly mourning on Twitter and other social media. Why? Because July 2 is the day Augustus Waters, played by Ansel Elgort (above left), died of cancer.

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The thinking goes like this:

There were those who acknowledged the deceased was merely a character in a book:

And those who did not:

But in either case, the feelings were definitely real:

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