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If you are "empathetic" you would know of a situation and have feelings about that situation, but have never experienced it.

(Example: "My heart feels bad that your mother died.")

To be "sympathetic" you need to have lived through the situation, and you share your feelings about it with another person who has that same situation.

(Example: "My mother died too, and I never got over the sadness- I'm sorry you have to go through this.")

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