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 \nThe first question I can answer,but the second isdifficult indeed,for endurance of unescapable sorrow issomething which has to be learned alone.And only toendure is not enough.Endurance can be a harsh andbitter root in one's life,bearing poisonous and gloomyfruit,destroying other lives.Endurance is only thebeginning.There must be acceptance and the know-ledge that sorrow fully accepted brings its own gifts.For there is an alchemy in sorrow.It can be trans-muted into wisdom,which,if it does not bring joy,canyet bring happiness.  \nThe final reason for setting down this story is that Iwant my child's life to be of use in her generation.Sheis one who has never grown mentally beyond her early  \nchildhood,therefore she is forever a child,although inyears she is old enough now to have been married andto have children of her own—my grandchildren whowill never be.  \nThe first cry from my heart,when I knew that shewould never be anything but a child,was the age-oldcry that we all make before inevitable sorrow:'Whymust this happen to me?'To this there could be noanswer and there was none.When I knew at last thatthere could never be an answer,my own resolve shapedinto the determination to make meaning out of themeaningless,and so provide the answer,though it wasof my own making.I resolved that my child,whosenatural gifts were obviously unusual,even though theywere never to find expression,was not to be wasted.If she could not make the contribution ","cbCailWitwB4nxqV","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCailWitwB4nxqV","pdf",3328081,74,"English","# The Child Who Never Grew\n## Author’s purpose and encouragement to parents\n## Endurance, acceptance, and the transformation of sorrow\n## Making meaning and usefulness for the child’s life","[{\"question\":\"What is the central purpose of the book for Pearl S. 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