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By Melissa Davidson

Facebook CEO Sheryl Sandberg’s most recent college graduation commencement speech is just one more example of why she is a successful businesswoman: She’s human.

In her UC Berkeley address on May 14, Sandberg didn’t talk about great leaders or how women need to ‘own’ their success. She’s already said all of that. This time, her words were intensely personal because it’s the first time she’s publicly addressed her husband’s death since he fell and hit his head on a treadmill while they were vacationing in Mexico last year. David Goldberg, the chief executive of SurveyMonkey, was 47 years old.